THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Career

“It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.” - Carlton Fisk

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Award Your Own Genius Grants

The MacArthur Foundation has just named its new crop of MacArthur Fellows, 23 creative achievers who have each been given a half-million-dollar "genius grant." The Foundation has been giving such awards for 30 years now, and every year's announcement seems to garner more attention than the last. If you're like many people hearing about the program, one of your first questions may be: How are these geniuses chosen?

Funny you should ask. A few years ago, my colleague Diane Coutu (genius herself of social science editing) published an interview in our pages with Daniel Socolow, the director of MacArthur's Fellows program since 1997. He describes a process that, appropriately, is as much art as science.

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