Academic Identity
I am assistant professor of Sociology at Barnard College. My book (and my dissertation research) is a comparative study of technology and futures trading, an ethnography of open outcry and electronic traders. My current research is on how art specialists price cultural commodities, particularly how categories and commensuration work in the secondary/resale fine arts market. I teach courses in economic sociology, organizations, and gender.
Professional Identity
I occasionally consult, focusing on organizational change, the future of technology and financial markets, and environmental markets. I do strategic assessments of markets, technology and organizational design, with qualitative and quantitative components. If you are interested, please email me.
Personal Identity
I grew up outside Chicago, and went to school(s) at Wesleyan University, USC, and Northwestern University. I currently live in New York, with a partner who is a marketing manager for an educational nonprofit. I love movies, like to cook, and I can do a mean lindy swing out. I am INTP.
March 11, 2008
It doesn’t have to be a motto
Filed under: Ramble — Peter @ 7:53 am
From Making Light:
Act now! Act without thinking! WORK LIKE YOU WERE LIVING IN THE EARLY DAYS OF A BETTER NATION.
This is good advice.
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This site is hand-woven, and heavily borrows from the wonderful blueprint framwork. Rock on, grids!
Not quite
, but getting there..
March 11th, 2008 at 8:05 am
It reminds me of this: http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/
March 11th, 2008 at 9:08 am
That’s kinda brilliant. I was searching your site for the ‘it doesn’t have to be a resolution, more of a monthly adage’ or whatever it was that we had come up with, but alas I couldn’t find it.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:12 am
“Right now, all the action is around the new folks who presumably have joined up as part of a New Year’s resolution. (BTW: January’s theme: “Its not a resolution.”) ”
from http://whatisthewhat.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/mr-boxer-frenchie-and-tiny-tina/?
Anywher…Oblique Strategies is actually a Facebook app, if you can believe it. Sigh.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:26 am
is actually a Facebook app
Hrmph. Course, that means it’ll disappear along with FB in a couple years.
Maybe a new series: ‘It’s not a resolution’. Or ‘SociObliques’ - but that sounds a little like a stomach muscle.
I do have a few in my pocket (first one from Anne Lamott, the second by Howie Becker):
1) first draft down, second draft up (get it down, then clean it up)
2) “‘getting it right’ means putting the argument so clearly that the paper begins by asserting what it later demonstrates”
March 11th, 2008 at 9:32 am
The New Tricks of the Trade: One Sentence Wisdom