Links from the past week ...

1. Meena Kandasamy: Book, Booker, Booked.

2. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

3. Ripples: TR's speech to his fellow graduates several years ago.

4. Obama's response in 1994 to the abominable The Bell Curve [via Ta-Nehisi Coates].

5. Parseval: Two plus two makes five: selling danger by ignoring evidence.

6. An ex-student's frustrating experiences with the IISc administration.

7. Reema, who teaches in a private college, offers her take on the education boom. Also read her post on a recent day at work. Scary!

8. Bob Sutton: Leadership vs. Management: An Accurate But Dangerous Distinction?

9. Clive Thompson in the NYTimes: Brave New World of Digital Intimacy [via Chris Blattman].

10. Spencer Green in McSweeney's: All I really need to know I learned in my spam box [via Chugs].

11. Amy Ozols in the New Yorker: A mass e-mail.

12. Good students and bad students: A senior faculty member's advice on how to treat them differently.

13. Finally, the mystery link.