Category: Words
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Math as a Liberal Art
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Tulum Trash
I had to nose the ATV gently through the gutter that had formed in the middle of the dirt road. I would have raced right through it, but Carly was…
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Spending 2024 with Infinite Jest – Notes on the first readthrough.
Four months, one reading. And I’m not finished yet! Time to flip this over and see what else it can tell me.
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Create More Than You Consume. Much More. Exponentially More.
“It actually makes me feel better knowing you’re not doing so great.” This line comes from one of my friends, but there’s no reason to take offense. As it goes,…
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Consolidation to Reduce Anxiety
Too many apps. Too many profiles. Too many inboxes. Not enough of the right attention going to the right places. The joke used to be: the first step to any…
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I Am Bad at Sharing Ideas
I came across On Idea Hoarding. Damnit, it’s me. Stop hoarding your best ideas. Just put them out there, immediately. This isn’t a new problem, I just have horrible ways…
The problem with math – at least with math instruction – is that everything is presented as a problem to be solved, and there is one solution. It wouldn’t be until a seminar on etymology that I started to understand where my mathematical collapse begun.
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