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Here's what I published on Friday, September 25, 2026: Praying through a logic problem 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.

Here's what I published on Wednesday, September 16, 2026: On the cost of cynicism 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

Here's what I published on Tuesday, September 8, 2026: AI's learning penalty is avoidable I wrote recently that no homework is safe now, and that the right response is to treat homework as practice, not assessment for grades. Case in point: a 30-month study of

Here's what I published on Monday, September 7, 2026: Shame Is Priced In 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

Here's what I published on Saturday, August 29, 2026: Assessing Students Who Use AI 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,

Here's what I published on Monday, August 10, 2026: The Near Future and Present Reality of AI Considering how I at least skim pretty much every single one of Zvi’s (very long!) posts, I don’t link to him enough. Here’s a great and not-as-

Here's what I published on Friday, July 17, 2026: #SaveTheEmDash I’m so grateful Brian Phillips wrote this article. There have been moments recently that I’ve avoided em dashes knowing how people fixate on them as proof of AI slop. But they’re just so useful and

Here's what I published on Saturday, July 11, 2026: Normal Cheating My home state, Utah, is packed with law-breakers, scofflaws. They do it with impunity, on a daily basis. To make matters worse, law enforcement is complicit. It’s illegal to drive faster than the speed limit.

Here's what I published on Friday, July 3, 2026: Tips on Asking for Help 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

Here's what I published on Thursday, July 2, 2026: Birthright There’s a fascinating detail in my family history in how its lines crossed once, then not again until a hundred years later. My great-great-grandfathers of the Miller line (Allen Jr., on my dad’s side)

Here's what I published on Monday, June 22, 2026: Some common misconceptions about LLMs I was talking to my mother-in-law this week about how she downloaded ChatGPT to her phone two weeks ago. It’s her first experience with an LLM. We talked about all the

Here's what I published on Saturday, June 13, 2026: Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints All the discourse on social media over the last week+ has been expectedly pointless after the Dept of Defense listed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a non-Christian