These notes are a growing collection. Some of the notes are thoroughly developed pieces of writing (e.g. Alan Lakein’s Life Goals Exercise). Others are just stubs (e.g. juggling). Despite their length and level of polish, they’re all things that I thought were worth noting.
The best way to navigate them is to use the Notes menu, and search. Alternatively, you might find the Tags helpful to find notes around a similar topic. There are tags which group posts according to how polished or sketchy they are.
These notes were inspired by:
Adding sums of powers of naturals via finite calculus.
A little bit of biography copy.
Notes and resources from a conference.
Information about my porch vegetable garden.
What do you want to do with your life?
How to apply to a lot of academic jobs using a spreadsheet.
A math heavy list of recommended reading. Links to Toronto Public Library and UToronto Library are provided.
References and care tips for the plants in my office.
How I sort my documents and e-mail for PTR.
Some of my favourite math-y puzzles.
How to prepare multiple versions of teaching documents easily.
Ways to get involved in math in Toronto.
Study tips, mental health stuff, and general best practice for life.
Why it is important, how to do it with minimal equipment, etc.
Do you have any questions?
Links to juggling resources.
A mathematical magic trick based on Markov chains.
This note collects various references related to blogging. Why people blog, how to blog, etc.
An overview of course preparation for my own use.
What does this mysterious function do?
A list of common $\LaTeX$ errors that beginners make and their solutions.
What does the $\sin(x)$ button on a calculator really do?
What I pack when I travel.
If you’re a student doing interesting things, please make a website.
How to get all your kids photos from Lillio.
How to prepare a probationary review dossier as a teaching stream faculty at UTSC.
My (personal) take on best practices for writing documents in $\LaTeX{}$.
Language independent literate programming with noweb.
Some resources that I use in my writing ritual.
A list of recurring topics of interest. It’s weird.
A couple AI generated images of an emblem that says: Trust the Process. It’s all Connected.
A pair of string figures from Mary-Rousselière’s Les Jeux de Ficelle Des Arviligjuarmiut.
A summary of the Kangaroo Volunteer Orientation 2025.
How I sort exam papers using bucket sort.
Getting an email from an mbox.
Hasty notes from an indigenous education retreat.
Convert a quote on a webpage to markdown.
Thoughts on a persistent problem.
A website can have visible and invisible parts much like an iceberg.
When does a function have a nice antiderivative?
Don’t read a book alone! Do something social.
A working draft of a short piece about sundials.
Instructions for the Australian aboriginal string figure Bunk.
This is a checklist of things that I need to do on a weekly basis for work. It was inspired by Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
Some personal reflections on reading, writing, and worship.
Some pictures of samples of three loop braids.
A visual comparison of various low-tech ways of photographing a braid.
Recordings are great, until they are not.
Against vim mastery.
How to add line spacing and line numbering to a $\LaTeX$ document.
Thoughts about how to undo the effect of docstrip.
How I use newsboat and sfeed to generate a static page of RSS feeds that I follow.
How to get your course evaluation data and format it in $\LaTeX$.
Things I wish that I’d known when I started teaching.
A write-up of a question about loop manipulation and braid groups.
Thoughts on how to design assessments which are valuable to students beyond completion, and which can be re-used over multiple years.
How I’ve set up my ttys on Linux to be more user friendly. Switching fonts, keys, and backlights.
How I use a twenty year old word processor to write code and upload it to the cloud.
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