Author: Shannon Turlington
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The most influential books of the 20th century…
I spent all morning researching and writing this answer to the Quora question: What 20th-century novel has been most influential in shaping mindsets and changing lives? So I thought I’d share my answer here as well. It is hard to pick just one novel, but I think that 1984 by George Orwell is the most influential novel of the…
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A present-day dystopia…
We just finished watching the first two seasons of Luther on Netflix Instant Streaming. It is a crime series starring Idris Elba, and it can be very disturbing. One thing I like about it is that even though it is set in present-day London, it has a pronounced dystopian flavor. I was trying to come up…
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Re-post: Remembering How to Play
The IAM Learning Community has reposted my essay, Remembering How to Play. I hope you’ll head over there and check it out.
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Common Themes in the Works of Stephen King
This essay started life as a collection of notes I made on every Stephen King book a few years back, when I was rereading them all. Then it morphed into an answer to a question on Quora. I was asked to answer a question on Quora about the common themes in Stephen King’s works. I…
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Quora: Is the Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover Over the Line in Terms of Good Taste?
My hastily dashed off response to Time magazine’s breastfeeding cover on Quora this morning was reprinted on the Huffington Post: Quora: Is the Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover Over the Line in Terms of Good Taste? Here’s the original question and all the answers on Quora.
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iHRIS: Where Are We Now?
Here is a piece I co-wrote about the iHRIS Open Source HRIS software project I’ve been working on. It provides some history and context of the project, and it looks ahead to next developments. Read: iHRIS: Where Are We Now? | www.ihris.org.
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Current Project: iHRIS: Free and Open Health Workforce Information Software
I have been working lately, and here’s what I’ve been working on. I’ve been revamping the website for iHRIS: Free and Open Health Workforce Information Software. This is a project to create open source human resources information systems that governments in the developing world can use to manage their health workers. We just launched the new…
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Remembering How to Play
Recently, I was talking with my son’s preschool teacher, and I casually asked her when my four-year-old should be learning how to read and write. Her response surprised me. She gestured at the terrific space she had set up for the children to play in: an outdoor garden and playhouse, swings and slides, climbing ladders…
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Get A Real Job Redux
IAM Community has republished an older essay of mine that I still like a lot. It’s called Get A Real Job. Go check it out!
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