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In Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign , author Jonathan Allen presents a highly readable and compelling political narrative underlining the myriad of deficiencies in Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential campaign. Allen places much of the blame for Clinton's loss on the shoulders of millennial big-data champion Robby Mook. Accordingly, the larger lesson here suggests that the overuse of analytics and big data over gut, human instinct, and common sense can lead to utter failure. You can't poll-test everything. Mook wanted to put in place a "strategy" to show the American public the real Hillary Clinton. When it is called a strategy, well, it rings hollow. Authenticity can't be contrived. There is still place in the world for business, government, and other organizations to construct visions and act effectively without reducing human beings en masse to a collection of data points that can be sold and tossed around by the elites. Clinton...

Recently, I read an article about an interesting new class being offered at the University of Tenessee. The course is called "Dolly's America", and explores Appalachia, America, music and culture. Well, sign me up. It makes sense to me that a history class should be looking through the lens of Dolly Parton, the great Tennessee born signer-songwriter. In this way, history is viewed from the lens of the "underdog", the poor, the rural, and the outcast. Well, maybe not always, but far too often history is told through the lens of coastal academia. I appreciate the varied perspective this class seems to offer. Click here to read the article about the new class being offered at the University of TN.  I pulled this picture straight from the NYT