Tag / #process
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New Year; Beta You
This January, I noticed a lot of ads, links, and email subject lines with the cliché, “New Year; New You.” The copywriters weren’t even trying. The standard articles on resolutions had an…
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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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The Homework We All Need To Do
Let’s think about writing for a moment. We think of writing in two ways. First, there is the writing we do everyday. The phrases that we use to love our families, argue…
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Writing is a New Word
As I write in The Interactive Voice, words themselves are thesis statements. The lawyer Raphael Lemkin first developed and coined the term “genocide” in response to the Armenian Massacre at the hands…
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A Stranger is Worth More Than a Friend
The campaign to delete Facebook is trending again. I say again, because this isn’t the first time. Facebook lost 6 million users in mid-2011 after one particularly uproar-inducing redesign. People predicted the…
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You Are Not A Visual Learner
You are far more intelligent than that. I wrote about how scientists disproved the hypothesis that right-brained people are creative and left-brained people are analytical. Our creative and analytic skills live in…
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The Long Game of Seriously Part 2
I have an artist in my class this semester. He has a great story. When he was young, after he graduated college and discovered his major wouldn’t lead to the life he…
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I Hate the Word “Content”
I’m not fond of “material” either. I use them in conversation and writing, but not often. Both words make me think of polystyrene peanuts. They are metaphors for the worst motivation for…
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Let Me Be Perfectly Unclear
I teach for two reasons. First, it keeps firing my imagination and my writing. I see little distinction at this point between producing a film, a book, or a syllabus. They all…
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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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