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Embracing Accessibility is The Key to Better Business Inclusive design does more than improve quality of life for people with disabilities, it gives businesses an edge. How being at the forefront of inclusive design...Businesses need to... How companies are missing out?  ( help )  Social networking sites and cell phone applications have revolutionized our capacity for communication and  have become crucial resources for many aspects of life:  education, employment, government, health care, commerce, and more.  This impact has increased in recent years, in part due to their role in the emerging sharing economy, "an  evolving system in which people who own certain things, like homes or cars, rent them out to others when they are not using them".   Apps like  Uber and AirBnB have  dramatically improved  the ease and efficiency of daily life by giving us quick services at a fair price.  But unfortunately these are falling shor...

I am really passionate about food, so I absolutely loved getting to read this. I always get inspired by the stories of chefs and the way that their early experiences have shaped their relationship to food and how they go about sharing it. I watch a lot of food documentaries and find his path to be not so different than that of the chefs and restauranteurs featured on Netflix episodes. Yet, Kurt's story is unique in its own way. I found his story to be special because he went into detail about the process of becoming who he is today and documented his evolution really beautifully in words. Although I found this story to be quite boring, because it was long and not packaged as nicely as a Netflix episode, the way that he tells his story is what allows readers to understand how it relates to business. His experiences are all reflective of important lessons one can take about starting and growing their own business or brand. There are a lot of instances where Kurt did not need to go ...

Student Worker My official title is Student Worker, but I usually go by Office Assistant or Receptionist because I think it sounds more professional. It makes sense that my title is Student Worker, because I am a student who works. However, I feel that it annoyingly places all student worker positions under the same job description, despite the fact that I have vastly different responsibilities compared to students working in other departments. I work at the Office of Student Services in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC. Unlike student jobs in other offices like the Ticket Office or the Campus Center, my responsibilities specifically relate to the School of Cinematic Arts. As Office Assistant, as I like to call myself, I have a number of responsibilities which include: responding to phone calls packaging admissions decisions tending to the front desk facilitating admissions events These may seem like pretty simple tasks, and that is true. Whenever business is slow,...

Student Worker My official title is student worker, but I usually go by Office Assistant or Receptionist because it sounds more professional. It makes sense that my title would be Student Worker, because I am a student who works. However, I feel that it lumps all student workers into one category, when I have vastly different responsibilities than students who work in other departments. I work at the Office of Student Services at the School of Cinematic Arts at USC. Unlike student jobs in other areas like the Ticket Office or the Campus Center, my responsibilities specifically relate to the School of Cinematic Arts. As Office Assistant, as I like to call myself, I have a number of responsibilities including responding to phone calls, putting together admissions letters, tending to the front desk, and helping to facilitate admissions events. These may seem like pretty simple tasks, and that is true. Whenever business is slow, I usually get to work on homework and chat with my fe...

Reading the first part of Growing A Farmer by Kurt Timmermeister, I was amazed by how much Kurt's journey from restaurant owner to full on farmer relates to the journey of life as a whole. His story emulates the ideal American Dream; one of being able to solve a problem he identified in his work by taking calculated risks and being resilient. Kurt talks at length about what his farm Kurtwood means to him, as well as how he has evolved with it. A lot of what he describes about his relationship to his farm is very applicable to human relationships. First and foremost, relationships require love. They also require a lot of sacrifice, pain, and patience. Like any good relationship, businesses require compromise and a strong ability to accept some lack of control. As Kurt mentions in the introduction, this book is not a definite "thing"; it is not a cook book, and it is not a business book either, rather it is a collection of his truths. It very much tells the classic stor...