SWARTHMORE, Pa. — Swarthmore tennis player Rachel Wallwork ’10 and swimmer Doug Glichrist-Scott ’09 were recently named to ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District II Team, as voted on by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Wallwork is a first-team selection in the At-Large College Division while Gilchrist-Scott earned second-team status.

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Wallwork, Gilchrist-Scott Named Academic All-District by ESPN the Magazine

In our world where success is judged often by how much you can juggle rather than how well your tackle any one particular item, drugs have become the human answer to competing with automation. We see it in sports where performance enhancing drugs drive an industry once dominated by smoking, drinking and chewing tobacco. As we compete with models of perfection, we need to become a bit more perfect to succeed (and I haven’t yet mentioned plastic surgery, makeup or other external beauty enhancements)

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If Everything Looks Like a Factory Maximize Productivity, Even If it Means Taking Drugs

As regular readers will know, I firmly believe that our over emphasis on productivity does a disservice to other measurements that aren’t so easily obtained, thus forcing us still see the world through the lens of the industrial age. When your only meaningful measure is productivity, everything looks like a factory. This was reinforced as I read this article recently about the UK’s National Health Service, or NHS (read Bleak economic outlook “doesn’t have to mean service cuts ” for details)

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Productivity, Innovation at the NHS

Despite the incorrect date at the top of the web page, the April 27, 2009 BusinessWeek holds an article on how the technology geeks of startup land are landing in less posh settings to conserve their cash for actual investment in their ideas rather than on extravagant edifices (and offices) to what might be but probably won’t ever be. As a former IT analyst, I spend countless hours counseling startups to focus on product rather than enjoying the thrill of spending someone else’s cash on caché. Enjoy the read ( Bedroom Startups ) on frugal startups starting to act like entrepreneurs of old who knew success was a privilege reserved for those who act with reserve.

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Geek Startup Chic