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The New Math is My Father’s Math
My father is an engineer. For a time, in the 1960s, he worked on the heat shield for the Apollo modules that took us to the moon. When the missions stopped, he…
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Prompts are the New Assignment
My family loves Harry Potter. Our oldest borrowed more books from her school library last year than anyone else in the building, but Hogwarts is still her favorite world. She falls asleep…
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The Most Precise Word in the Dictionary
One of the ideas behind my writing course is that for every classic writing form—the sentence, the citation, the argument, the resume—there is a counterpart on the Web that holds the same…
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The Art is Invisible
Coco is great. Pixar’s latest is everything you want. It’s gorgeous. It’s respectful. It’s human. Like all Pixar films, it touches the heart with these elements and without resorting to clichés or…
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The Big Picture is in Our Heads
We bought one of the girls a train for Christmas and it brought together a lot of ideas for me. First, it was no surprise she asked for it. If the oldest…
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Nothing is Normal
In mathematics and computer science, “algorithm” and “effective method” have precise definitions, but for most of us, effective means whatever works. From brushing our teeth to driving to work to having sex,…
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A LinkedIn Profile is Not a Resume
I want to tell you about two conversations I had, one over coffee and one over lunch. When I lived in New Haven, Connecticut, I had regular meetings in the Westport Starbucks…
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