Welcome! I am Jason Nguyen, a graduate student in ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington, and this blog is where I make observations about music, culture, and academic life.

Daily Accountability with help from Google

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This semester, I have a lot of work, but it’s all going to have to be self-structured.  So I took a strategy from a Noah Kagan blog post, “Daily Accountability Marketing Metrics“, in which he asks those working for him to fill out a daily form that asks them what specific work they’ve done as part of their duties for that day.  What I like about the forms he uses is that they are both metric and reminder.

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January 13th, 2011 | Category: Technology, University Life, Workflow | 2 comments

The Media and Race

For those unaware, there was a recent robbery on the IU campus that, because the two groups were of different races, has been framed by the media as a racially motivated attack…we see an important journalistic concern: how to tell the truth while also contextualizing it. [...]

November 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Academic Musings, University Life | 2 comments