Dylan Tweney

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The new paternity leave

“Taking paternity leave is so rare that it’s not a question of how much time you’re going to take off, but whether you will be able to take any at all.” That’s pretty sad! Here’s a great post (and a very funny infographic) from one dad who took 12 weeks off with his newborn. MORE […]

Dylan Tweney Apr 19, 2017

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We are Lent into Each Other’s Keeping

“We are lent into each other’s keeping.” Our time with each other is borrowed, its duration is unknown, and that uncertainty makes it precious.

Dylan Tweney Mar 6, 2017 1 min read

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Where the action is

If you want a teacher…

Dylan Tweney Mar 2, 2017

Published Work

Talk loudly and carry a big schtick

The people who are paid to get corporate messages across outnumber daily news journalists by nearly 10 to 1. That’s not even a fair fight. So what responsibility do PR people have?

Dylan Tweney Mar 1, 2017 3 min read

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So in all the delights of the world almost

A gentleman never dances so well as the dancing master, and an ordinary fiddler makes better musique for a shilling than a gentleman will do after spending forty, and so in all the delights of the world almost. –The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Weds. 27 January 1663/64

Dylan Tweney Jan 28, 2017

Rough Drafts

How You Got My Attention

One of today’s top recommended stories in my Medium feed is a piece intriguingly titled “How I Got My Attention Back.” I clicked through, only to see that Medium estimated it as a 14-minute read. Fourteen minutes! You expect me to spend more than half a pomodoro of my precious attention on a wanderi

Dylan Tweney Jan 19, 2017 3 min read

Rough Drafts

The difficulty with complexity.

As a society, we are facing a crisis of understanding. Fake news is just the latest expression of a deeper problem: We have more and more difficulty thinking about (and talking about) complex topics. In short, it’s hard to convey nuance and multiplicity with the media we have today. Social networks

Dylan Tweney Jan 6, 2017 4 min read

Family

Santa is real.

This year I took the kids shopping with me on Christmas Eve. I gave them $60 each: A twenty to buy a present for their mom, a twenty to buy a present for their sibling, and a twenty to buy some stocking stuffers for the other three members of the family. “You’re going to help play […]

Dylan Tweney Dec 28, 2016 2 min read

Rough Drafts

Signing off Facebook for awhile.

I’m done with Facebook for now, so I am signing off for awhile. Partly I am annoyed with the company for not taking a stand against the Trump administration and its elected leader’s comments about making lists of Muslims and immigrants. For the company’s COO to attend a meeting with Trump yesterday

Dylan Tweney Dec 15, 2016 1 min read

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How Google and Facebook are transferring content revenues to themselves

Jonathan Taplin: Since 2000, recorded music revenues in the United States have fallen to $7.2 billion per year from $19.8 billion. Home entertainment video revenue fell to $18 billion in 2014 from $24.2 billion in 2006. United States newspaper ad revenue fell to $23.6 billion in 2013 from $65.8 bill

Dylan Tweney Dec 13, 2016 1 min read

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Nonviolence and Standing Rock

A really insightful essay on why nonviolence plays such an important role at Standing Rock — and how it might work going forward. “The way we see and treat someone is a powerful invitation for them to be as we see them. See someone as deplorable, and even their peace overtures will look like cynical

Dylan Tweney Dec 10, 2016

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7 years since tinywords relaunched

Has it really been 7 years since I relaunched tinywords.com? Time flies. I am no longer editing the journal — that job has been ably taken over by Kathe Palka and Peter Newton — but I continue to maintain the technical side of the site, which is now about 16 years old. It is one […]

Dylan Tweney Nov 30, 2016

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