commencement address | Matthew Dicks

13 Rules for an Effective (and Perhaps Even Inspiring) Commencement Address

By Matthew Dicks | June 10, 2016 |

I have been listening to a lot of commencement addresses over the past two weeks, and I’ve been a listener of commencement addresses for a long time. NPR’s The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever, with more than 350 speeches going back to 1774, is a good place to start. Many have videos of the speeches, and…

Design yourself

By Matthew Dicks | August 16, 2012 |

NPR’s Robert Krulwich delivered a commencement address at Maine’s College of the Atlantic that I liked a lot. In all honestly, his delivery isn’t great. His head is down a great deal of the time, and his posture leaves something to be desired, but the words are fantastic, so click play and then go do…