Feeling odd during exam week. Also, lots of poetry?
The eye of the cyclone week before exams.
Lovely weather and a bit of a phone defeat.
Getting excited about summer and such.
Ramping up to Pi Day
Ramping up to Pi Day
Coming back to work after Reading Week.
An early book about life online.
Coming back to work after Reading Week.
A deeply personal look at the Croatian War of Independence.
Notes from Reading Week of Winter 2025.
Late last year, I had to the idea that my new year’s intention would be around “reading, writing, moving, and playing”. I kept to it for about a week and then the new semester hit and blew up my ability to do anything. After some reflection, I realized that I needed some mechanism to keep me focussing on these intentions. So, here’s a little bit of a post about my week as viewed through the lense of that intention.
A series of letters about calculus problems together with reflections on the student-teacher relationship and age.
Early thoughts from Parker Palmer about Quaker education.
Some personal reflections on reading, writing, and worship.
A small collection of a hundred songs of joy.
An early Esperanto novellla about a young German woman abandoned in Paris.
A rant about why old Esperanto literature is neat.
A nice review of three popular books on academic writing.
A picture of the books on my book shelf.
An artist’s book about the relationship between string figures and modernity
An encyclopedic view of Esperanto literature.
A celebration of amateur magicians.
On returning a stack of unread library books.
Thoughtful writing on music and society.
My progress through Auld’s Baza Legolisto (Basic Reading List).
A wonderful collection of stories from Rossetti’s life.
Samuel Delaney shares his deep reflections on a lifetime of writing. A great follow-up to The Motion of Light in Water.
A thrilling space opera about language, empire, and love.
A vivid portrait of life near Kingston and Galloway.
A poet’s seven short essays about the writing life.
A lot of wisdom compressed down to wonderful epigrams.
An excellent introduction to the world of Esperanto.
This is a list of texts that I often recommend to people together with comments about those books. It is especially heavy on mathematics books, speculative fiction, and writing advice. Links to the Toronto Public Library and UToronto Library are provided.
This book describes the various problems associated with a culture of infinite browsing. It argues against our contemporary tendency to keep our options open and never settle for any one thing. The author, who is around my age, describes this as primarily being a problem of young people like us. It’s a generational thing associated with our nearly unlimited choice.
A music producer’s cosmic reflections on living creatively.
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