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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Won’t get an argument from me, some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen is from programmers. But there’s a difference between one or two classes in proper writing and degrees like Lit and Art History and fill-in-the-blank Studies. All that creates is an indebted, well-read barista.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Chee<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 29, 2019 4:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> ipg-smz@netpress.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] "If I was Thanos"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I dunno...perhaps a balance? Considering how many REALLY HORRIBLY written papers I've gotten from computer science students, perhaps we should be considering an investment in the liberal art departments? This way our STEM students have someplace to learn how to write and do public speaking.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>/brian chee<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 1:51 PM Mac McCarthy <<a href="mailto:mac.mccarthy@gmail.com">mac.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>"</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The idea of funding a kid to get an English Lit degree at a $70k liberal arts school is asinine. " -- yes!!</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 4:46 PM Andy Patrizio <<a href="mailto:andy@andypatrizio.com" target="_blank">andy@andypatrizio.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>B-b-b-b-but what would the Daily Mail run?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan Rosenbaum<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 29, 2019 3:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] "If I was Thanos"<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I would eliminate clickbait hot-take articles and columns.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>D<o:p></o:p></p><div id="gmail-m_5837782107680918036gmail-m_7347948641796117799AppleMailSignature"><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Dan Rosenbaum<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>347-658-5855<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Sent from a mobile; please excuse brevity and/or typos.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On Apr 29, 2019, at 1:44 PM, Brian Santo <<a href="mailto:thedukeofdefinition@gmail.com" target="_blank">thedukeofdefinition@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>US companies spending almost as much time figuring out clever schemes to avoid paying taxes as they do on producing goods/services, and then whining that underfunded US schools are failing at graduating enough STEM talent. <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:32 AM Andy Patrizio <<a href="mailto:andy@andypatrizio.com" target="_blank">andy@andypatrizio.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Concentration in a limited, absurdly expensive part of the country<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Rampant ageism and, remarkably, sexism<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Political extremism that literally runs people out of companies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Wasting money on products in search of a solution<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Willfully creating products known to have a negative societal impact<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Complete and utter disregard for consumer privacy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>A press completely unwilling to take on the industry for all of the above<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’m sorry did you say one?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Perlow, Jason<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 29, 2019 8:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> IPG List <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [Ipg-smz] "If I was Thanos"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='margin-bottom:2.4pt' id="gmail-m_5837782107680918036gmail-m_7347948641796117799gmail-m_-3162516231247124821gmail-m_7710245301960195521gmail-:3mo"><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>"If I was Thanos"</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>If you could snap your fingers and change anything about the tech industry, what would you change?</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Crowdsourcing this for a gallery. And yes, it has to be limited to the tech industry. But it could be anything.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>JASON PERLOW</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Sr. Technology Editor, ZDNet</span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=650 style='width:487.5pt'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'>Voice/Text (561)510-0063<br><a href="mailto:jperlow@gmail.com" target="_blank" title="[GMCP] Compose a new mail to jperlow@gmail.com"><span style='color:#333333'>jperlow@gmail.com</span></a><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#466BB0'>ZDNet Tech Broiler: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'><a href="http://www.techbroiler.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#333333'>www.techbroiler.com</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;color:#5F5F5F'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#466BB0'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#466BB0'>Socialize Me:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jperlow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.instagram.com/jasonperlow" target="_blank">Instag</a><a href="http://www.instagram.com/jasonperlow" target="_blank">ram</a> | </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/techperlow" target="_blank">FaceBook</a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'> | </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonperlow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'> | </span></b><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-- <br>Ipg-smz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">Ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><a href="http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org" target="_blank">http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-- <br>Ipg-smz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">Ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><a href="http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org" target="_blank">http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>Ipg-smz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">Ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><a href="http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org" target="_blank">http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Mac McCarthy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Get my<b> "Wine Tasting 101" - Kindle Edition only $1.99</b><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0000EE'><a href="http://amzn.to/13GWHPI" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/13GWHPI</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Amazon Prime</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> members! 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