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.
Notes from Reading Week of Winter 2025.
I’m participating a Pedagogy Group organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Reading and writing are the first technologies of any technological society. They are the base and foundation on which everything else is built. Compare the ~300,000 years of human history before the invention of writing with the more recent ~6000 years of documented history. Culture has evolved considerably since the invention of writing. We ask our students to write so that they can come to wield the most powerful meta-tool humanity has ever created.
Some personal reflections on reading, writing, and worship.
A couple AI generated images of an emblem that says: Trust the Process. It’s all Connected.
A nice review of three popular books on academic writing.
This note collects various references related to blogging. Why people blog, how to blog, etc.
A bit about my writing ritual.
Samuel Delaney shares his deep reflections on a lifetime of writing. A great follow-up to The Motion of Light in Water.
Thoughts about why it is so easy to overthing blogging.
How to add line spacing and line numbering to a $\LaTeX$ document.
Thoughts about how to undo the effect of docstrip.
A music producer’s cosmic reflections on living creatively.
How I use a twenty year old word processor to write code and upload it to the cloud.
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