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Chris Alexander

Chris’s Top Tara Brach Episodes: The Definitive List

When life gets hectic and my monkey brain starts spinning out of control–the checklists, projects, unmet goals, failures, wins, social…

2 min readAug 22, 2021

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Chris’s Top Tara Brach Episodes: The Definitive List

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Chris Alexander

Atomic Habits in Life and Work

Here are three key concepts that stuck with me in the days and weeks after I finished reading Atomic Habits.

4 min readJan 12, 2021

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Atomic Habits in Life and Work

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Chris Alexander

3 Bank Accounts Every 21-year-old Should Open

We don’t choose where we come from, but certainly can choose the trajectory of our future.

7 min readJan 7, 2021

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3 Bank Accounts Every 21-year-old Should Open

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Chris Alexander

On Loss, Grief, and Christmas

This is going to be a difficult holiday season for all of us.

3 min readDec 12, 2020

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On Loss, Grief, and Christmas

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Chris Alexander

I Endured One Month of Trump’s Emails. Here’s What I Learned.

155 emails used ego-inflating techniques similar to QVC call-in shows and late-night Ginsu knife commercials touting artificial scarcity.

4 min readOct 4, 2020

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I Endured One Month of Trump’s Emails. Here’s What I Learned.

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How to Talk to Your Mom About the Social Dilemma

There’s a knot in the pit of my stomach I’d describe it as a cocktail of panic, existential dread, powerlessness, and, of course, apathy.

6 min readSep 26, 2020

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3 Ideas that Shape How I Think About Higher Education Communications

TL;DR — 1. Operate first as a media company, and second as a university department. 2. Prioritize campaigns that show students who they can…

6 min readJun 21, 2017

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3 Ideas that Shape How I Think About Higher Education Communications

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Chris Alexander

One Thousand Eight Hundred Degrees

Fahrenheit, that is. It’s the temperature required to melt bronze…

3 min readDec 9, 2015

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How to Create a Brochure with Adobe InDesign: A Step By Step Guide for Non-Designers

But first, let me tell you about a situation I experienced in the past, and you may have experienced something similar.

5 min readAug 27, 2015

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5 Tactics to Boost University Email Open Rates

By 2018, the average inbox will get slammed with an average of 97 emails per day.

7 min readAug 4, 2015

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Chris Alexander

Chris Alexander

Senior Director of Digital Communications & Brand Experience at NYU School of Global Public Health / Podcast Producer / Occasional Bowhunter

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