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I quite enjoyed this piece by Mariam Sabri who teaches the history of science in Pakistan. It’s a case for breadth of experience, using evidence from the lives of four medieval Islamic polymaths. Alhazen, for example, worked out his theory of vision while under house arrest, after pretending to
It’s natural to think of cynicism compared to optimism, like we do with other opposites: dark and light, sorrow and joy, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos. (Monday night was rough for us Broncos fans.) Anyway, I mention opposites-thinking because it implies that the cost of
Having defended em dashes from the AI-shame brigade, you know where I stand on stigma as a strategy. Anil Dash makes the bigger version of the point: shame doesn't stop technology where its owners have accounted for it. What changes people is a better offer. Anil points
An excellent article on what happens when you orient your career towards progress. It’s written for career pivots, but has the kind of advice that can help college students in thinking about their first steps and all the ones that follow. A focus on progress is an active commitment
This week I gave a presentation to my college about assessment in the age of AI. Here's a written version of what I shared. AI eats all the homework Before the talk, I took the fundraising campaign analysis assignment from my nonprofit course and handed it to Claude.
Very good advice all around, and it almost all applies to people you know and people you don’t. My last heuristic is stranger: make it easy to say no. You might think that the worst outcome is a no, but the worst outcome is a pressured, begrudging yes. Your