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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
