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Sunday’s Best: Other Ways to Fail
Today’s Sunday-sized WuMo is a great reminder about planning ahead, but it’s today’s FoxTrot that reminds us of something vital in the conversation about AI in academics.
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By the Book
Today’s post by Seth Godin is short and really sweet. I like the comparison/contrast he pulls off with both ends of a book: the table of contents and the index (and I’m kind of surprised I’ve not seen it before). … Continue reading
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Four Big Questions
Curt Thompson’s The Soul of Desire is the kind of book that paints a picture that you know is beyond your grasp. He’s a professional writing from his own experience about a kind of community-building that he has created and … Continue reading
What You Get, What You Really Want
It seems to me that a good deal of “religious” conversation boils down to two things. The first is conversation as reporting. This usually comes from a good place, a place of some interest and concern. Sometimes it can grow … Continue reading
On Stupidity and Swimming
Sometimes Seth Godin’s shortest pieces are the ones that sing the most. He had a couple of great ones this past week, one about stupidity and one about swimming. The one about stupidity (and not being smart) is an interesting … Continue reading
The Way of Water
This recent post by Seth Godin is too short to share a snippet here, so you should take a minute to read the whole thing. Discernment is an important thing, perhaps more important with each day that passes. In yesterday’s … Continue reading
The Tension between Space and Time
It’s not every day that you see a post online that (inadvertently) has something to do with the title of this blog. But that happened a couple of days ago over at Seth Godin’s blog. Here’s how his post called … Continue reading
Good Words from Seth
Seth Godin has had a few resonant posts for me these last couple of weeks that are worth bookmarking and sharing. In this post, he talks about slowing down and speeding up. The post’s last line: Hurry, but don’t rush. … Continue reading
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Institutional Enchantment (or not)
I’ve done a decent job of being in “break mode,” I think, but this recent post by Richard Beck unexpectedly took me back a few weeks to a meeting I was in. The article, for which I am grateful, is … Continue reading
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On Screening Screens
The conversation around smart phones and social media and screens continues, with schools being a primary flashpoint. Two people behind this necessary focus have been Andy Crouch (of The Tech-Wise Family) and Jonathan Haidt (of The Anxious Generation). The two … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 