In her Conversation with Tyler, scholar Katherine Rundell said something important about the books we give our children ..read more

I was listening to some music from the 1970s yesterday morning while doing some academic bookkeeping. As happens occasionally, the lyrics of one of the songs jerked me out of my bureaucratic trance by echoing my subconscious ..read more

At some point last week, I found myself pointed to this short YouTube video of Jerry Seinfeld talking with Howard Stern about work habits. Seinfeld told Stern that he was essentially always thinking about making comedy. Whatever situation he found himself in, even with family and friends, he was thinking about how he could mine it for new material. Stern told him that sounded like torture. Jerry said, yes, it was, but ..read more

Alan Kay is fond of saying that object-oriented programming is not about the objects; it's about the messages. He also looks to the biological world for models of how to think about and write computer programs ..read more

The same idea popped up in three settings this week: a conversation with a colleague about student assessments, a book I am reading about women writers, and a blog post I read on the exercise bike one morning ..read more

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In his year-end wrap-up, Greg Wilson writes ..read more

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Earlier this week, I posted an item on Mastodon ..read more