NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Why is so much of design school a waste of time?

Dear Design Student — Medium: So here’s the secret that I didn’t put into practice until after I graduated: you’re a gold miner, not a customer, and if you don’t get good at mining for gold, you will never be a good designer. Especially once you make it past the first year or two of working, you spend less time wrestling with making things and more time listening to people in person, on the phone, in slack, in texts, in email, pretty much everywhere where they can find you. They are redundant, inarticulate, inefficient, vague, and inconsistent, and they are constantly going on and on about something. And god bless them.

Posted by David at 26 Comments Here

Two Shows High Schools Should Avoid Performing

OnStage: With the school year underway, it's a great time to see the incredible talent that's being fostered in our schools with their annual musicals. It's always fantastic to see schools take on bold and challenging work. But there is a point where things can go too far.

Here are two musicals that should not be gracing high school stages for a variety of reasons ranging from content to messages within the shows themselves.

Posted by David at 25 Comments Here

Why I Stayed

1839: I didn’t become aware of exactly how Pittsburgh I am until I went to college in upstate New York; a place where I was made aware of exactly how Pittsburgh I am by the endless questions about the genesis of my accent. An accent I wasn’t even aware of until I went to school.

Posted by David at 23 Comments Here

You're Not As Creative As You Think

Money Talking - WNYC: Everyone can be a creative genius. Right?

In the workplace, that's a dangerous proposition, according to Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, CEO of Hogan Assessments and professor of Business Psychology at University College London. Describing an article he wrote for the Harvard Business Review, Chamorro told Money Talking host Charlie Herman that to some degree, creativity levels are hard to change. And that's a good thing.

"Most people, as much as they may not like hearing this, have average creativity," he said.

Posted by David at 21 Comments Here

Clarion University forced to cancel play over actors’ race

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Student actors and the stage crew at Clarion University arrived Tuesday evening for one of the final rehearsals before next week’s campus opening of “Jesus in India” only to learn the off-Broadway production they had spent months on had been canceled.

The reason they were given was race: theirs.

Three of the five characters in the production are Indian, but on the mostly white state university campus, two of those characters were to be played by white student actors and a third was being portrayed by a mixed-race student.

Posted by David at 13 Comments Here