Today marks the “official” end of our Work Symposium.
I say “official” because, as always, we expect a few more posts to trickle in over the next week or two. In fact, in this case I think we might still be getting some that I’m particularly excited about by Nob, Pat and Chris. But each of them have their own work* and family responsibilities, which they foolishly and inexplicably like to put ahead of my own person wants and desires. (Writers! Go figure.)
I want to take a quick moment to thank everyone who contributed to the joint — and a special shout out to Matty, Miss Mary, and Gabriel Conroy for their guest contributions. While it may not have been one of our most heavily trafficked symposiums, it was one of the most interesting. Despite being lucky enough to have Vikram on staff, we are comparatively light on discussions surrounding non-political work and business issues. The quality of posts and discussions with y’all this past week makes me think we should try to step that up in the future.
We’ll try to plan our next symposium to run in either August or September. If you have a topic request, feel free to leave it in the threads or shoot me an email.
* Irony!
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I suggest that we not judge a symposium by the traffic numbers, but rather by the quality of its content. This symposium exceeded our standards for quality — lots of interesting ideas, well-articulated and civilly-argued — and was therefore a success.Report
If I were to voice one criticism it would be a very mild one related to the “embarrassment of riches” aspect of this. I find it difficult at times to keep up. In particular, I’ll read a particularly thought-provoking piece on a subject I haven’t previously given much attention to and it may take me a couple days to settle on an opinion, but by then the general focus of attention has moved elsewhere. The comments are still open but far fewer people are still interested. I want people to listen to me dammit! Me, me, me! ;-P
Seriously, though, it’s a good problem to have and just reflects the high quality of submissions. Maybe if I didn’t have a job and stuff I could keep up. But then I couldn’t afford internet so what ya gonna do?Report
You need OT audio so you can listen to the posts and comments while you’re driving.Report
That’s a thing? There’s an app for that? Cool!Report
There’s a pretty bad bug in the Comments module though. Occasionally it gets caught in a loop, squawking “BSDI!” and “Strawman!” over and over, until you just want to throttle someone.Report
This was the first symposium I actually contributed to, and thanks for the shout-out. I read most of the posts and really enjoyed it, and being a sometime labor historian (tl;dr: we don’t necessarily work, but we study people who do), it was up my alley.Report