Category: Words
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Math as a Liberal Art
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I Won’t Like It
It’s not that I think pop culture creates sub-par stuff. It’s how we’re asked to perceive popular culture that steps on the significance it could have. We’re not asking questions…
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What The Hell Is a Hobby?
This all reminds me of Parkinson’s Law: work contracts to fit the time you give it. My goal is fairly simple: restrict my “work” to 15 hours a week. Three,…
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The Audacity Doing Something You Might Enjoy.
“This is selfish,” I say. “And that’s the point.”
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I Forgot How To Read
Teaching someone how to read is akin to teaching someone how to write – after a certain point, there’s nothing else to teach.
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2024: The Year of Wonder?
You know the feeling of awe. Awe is passive, it is amazement, and it usually passes. But, if you can catch it in the moment, then it might just be…
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A Personal Manifesto for 2024
Forget Resolutions. Long Live the Manifesto!
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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