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Jeffrey Seglin

@jseglin.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School. Columnist, editor, teacher. The Right Thing columnist.

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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The right thing: Why I buy books when I travel. msn.com/en-us/travel... If you post a link to the name of your nearby independent bookstore as a response to this post, I’ll try to pay them a visit if I should find myself in their neck of the woods.
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The Right Thing: How far should you go to connect with an audience? jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
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How far should you go to connect with an audience?
Should you try to be something you’re not to connect with other people? Recently, I gave a talk to incoming graduate student editors of a ...
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The Right Thing: Is regifting wrong? jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com/2025/11/is-r...
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Is regifting wrong?
Is it wrong to give someone something as a gift that you got for free? A reader who we’re calling Aton wrote that he regularly gets invite...
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The Right Thing: Is regifting wrong? www.sfgate.com/living/artic...
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The Right Thing: Is regifting wrong?
Is it wrong to give someone something as a gift that you got for free?
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The Right Thing: Should you tell a friend a recommended book was awful? www.sfgate.com/living/artic...
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The Right Thing: Should you tell a friend a recommended book was awful?
How honest should you be with your opinions?
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The Right Thing: Are you obligated to support public media? www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Are you responsible for checking your AI work? jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com/2025/06/are-...
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Are you responsible for checking your AI work?
If you use artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in your professional work, how much responsibility do you have to check to make sure t...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/05/2025
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Right Thing: When all goes wrong, patience can help www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Right Thing: Readers share their acts of kindness www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...?
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The Right Thing: Don't believe everything you read on the internet jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com/2025/01/dont...
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Don’t believe everything you read on the internet
Should you correct a colleague or friend who spreads misinformation? Ten years ago, I agreed to participate at a student journalism conferen...
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The Right Thing: If you receive an item you didn’t order, what do you do? www.msn.com/en-us/shoppi...?
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Looking back on another year of doing The Right Thing... www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...?
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Listening before interrupting may yield better results... www.sfgate.com/living/artic...
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The Right Thing: Listening before interrupting may yield better understanding
Is it wrong to correct someone if you’re not certain they’re wrong?
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
How do you choose to behave when no one is looking? jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com/2024/12/its-...
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It’s time to share your stories of kindness
How do you choose to behave when no one is looking? Around this time of year, the leaves that once hung from the trees in our yard find thei...
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The Right Thing: At the holiday meal, share a little kindness www.sfgate.com/living/artic...?
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The Right Thing: At the holiday meal, share a little kindness
Should any topics be off limits at a holiday meal?
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The Right Thing: It’s time to share your stories of kindness www.sfgate.com/living/artic...
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The Right Thing: It’s time to share your stories of kindness
How do you choose to behave when no one is looking?
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Jeffrey Seglin @jseglin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Rather than allow anger to consume us over outcomes we didn’t like a different tack might be to double down on whatever efforts we've done to accomplish a task or to fight for a cause & channel any energy born of disappointment into finding new ways to reach those goals. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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