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Here's what I published from Sunday, December 28, 2025 to Saturday, January 3, 2026: Some Provo Street Photography Since my focus has been learning landscape photography, I've never really done any street shooting. Thanks to a kind invitation, I had a chance to head downtown and

Here's what I published from Sunday, December 21, 2025 to Saturday, December 27, 2025: My Ten Favorite Photos of the Year This is the year I made landscape photography an official hobby rather than just a thing I enjoyed doing with my iPhone. All of these photos were

Here's what I published from Sunday, December 14, 2025 to Saturday, December 20, 2025: Adversarial vs. Cooperative Teaching Whatever your opinion of AI, I found this idea of teaching being either adversarial or cooperative to be really interesting. I definitely find myself using both perspectives depending on the

Here's what I published from Sunday, December 7, 2025 to Saturday, December 13, 2025: AI is a magnifier, which is wonderful and terrible “Money doesn’t make you into a different person; it just makes you more of who you already are.” Not a semester goes by where

Here's what I published from Sunday, November 30, 2025 to Saturday, December 6, 2025: After historic declines, global poverty may increase after 2030 The global reductions in poverty over the last 50 years have been unprecedented, bordering on miraculous. But the rapid and easy gains in wellbeing might

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Here's what I published from Sunday, November 9, 2025 to Saturday, November 15, 2025: Cheating Is Expensive for Everyone Apropos to my post from last week on AI and Universities, here’s Yascha Mounk on the topic, noting the terrible incentives involved. If (1) AI is treated as

Here's what I published from Sunday, November 2, 2025 to Saturday, November 8, 2025: Orick, CA - October 14, 2025 This was a magical day. Here's one morning and two evening photos from Orick, CA. 💬 Comment on this post The difference between “accomplished” and “good” We

Here's what I published from Sunday, November 2, 2025 to Saturday, November 8, 2025: AI is Coming for Universities, and Grades Are Why Plenty of industries are getting stalked by AI right now. I don't think any knowledge-work jobs are immune. But if AI is the