The semester has started and students are back on campus. Mentally I'm like this turtle on a rock in Shinzen Garden in Fresno, California. The new school year has revived the discourse on generative AI use for teaching and learning. What should the role of generative AI be
I am tired of proving I'm human. One of the promises of technology adoption is making things easier and removing friction. Increasingly though - I've noticed how things are harder and taking more time because of technology. This makes me ask: who is this technology actually serving?
One of the reasons I wanted to start this newsletter was to get back into the habit and discipline of writing regularly. I don't want to say it isn't happening... but it's something I need to work on. That's what Summer is
This is a post I've been kicking around for a while and why I decided to start up a newsletter. I think it's good to read about how people try to actually do things, and in that spirit, here's my experience in trying to
There's a project at work where we needed to get some data out of our ILS - essentially a very large, complex database - and doing so had a bunch of hiccups. Some were user error from not understanding or remembering the terms for the query tool, some were because
In some ways this is a fresh start. Moving on from 20 years of blogs and all the subsequent baggage and messiness that comes with publicly writing every stupid thought out for the whole internet to consume. And yet... I'm still me and this isn't going
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