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Jeffrey Seglin
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Senior Lecturer, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School. Columnist, editor, teacher. The Right Thing columnist.
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The Right Thing: How far should you go to connect with an audience? jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
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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November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The Right Thing: Is regifting wrong?

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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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November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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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November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The Right Thing: Should you tell a friend a recommended book was awful? www.sfgate.com/living/artic...
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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October 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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The Right Thing: Are you obligated to support public media? www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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August 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Are you responsible for checking your AI work?
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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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June 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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May 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The Right Thing: When all goes wrong, patience can help www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...
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February 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The Right Thing: Readers share their acts of kindness www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...?
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January 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The Right Thing: Don't believe everything you read on the internet

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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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January 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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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January 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Looking back on another year of doing The Right Thing... www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...?
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January 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Listening before interrupting may yield better results... www.sfgate.com/living/artic...
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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December 17, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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How do you choose to behave when no one is looking?
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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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December 8, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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The Right Thing: At the holiday meal, share a little kindness www.sfgate.com/living/artic...?
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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December 3, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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The Right Thing: It’s time to share your stories of kindness
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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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December 3, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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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.
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November 21, 2024 at 11:21 PM