#Writing

I’m awake, I’m cranky, and I’m writing a piece. This should be interesting. This is coming together nicely. We have some tough choices to make. Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo housing dynamics are fascinating.
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Ok guys. Earlier this week, I promised a thread on Deep POV, as it's a common opportunity in my #revpit #10queries pages. I've been thinking about the best way to
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Tuning in now to what is often one of my favorite #AALS sessions: the Emerging Voices in Securities Regulation paper discussion. I think what I love the most, is the
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When I made the decision to step away from teacher PD and make @EdHistory101 my full-time gig, I had to decide what kind of editor I wanted to be. I
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A common problem when testing positioning and ads is: how do I create 2 or 20 or 40 substantially different value props to test? Most of us aren't gold-tier copywriters,
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The other day I mentioned that I think we should spend less time teaching kids to spot persuasive techniques and more time teaching them to spot arguments & flaws in
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starting to think y’all don’t even know what “queer baiting” is. it’s not a person writing a song about gay people... or a celebrity being vague about their identity... it’s
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Reading “classic” novels in high school seems a waste. I’d not yet had the life experience - or introspection - required to at all grasp what the authors were saying.
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I feel torn. Lots of WW2 fiction is set in Occupied Europe. I do love reading them, BUT, what I write is set on the American homefront, and Nebraska in
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If you think the ongoing oppression of Uighurs in China is some sort of CIA false flag, or worse yet permissible...You are just as much an enemy of mine as
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Welp, that's the third day I've had someone asking why their lettered mail hasn't come in on time. In a row. So, I guess it's time I caused some trouble
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OpenAI’s GPT-3 API automatically generates shockingly high quality text. Here are some samples: https://read-the-samples.netlify.app/ What are the societal ramifications once automatic text generators are widely available? Big list o
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So a few days ago someone tweeted about how authors should fight to adapt their books into screenplays if they want. It was worded badly. People got angry. And I’ve
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Academia is *so very* bad at seeing its implicit expectations—a small example—I am only now, one decade into professing, beginning to feel I know what a strong recommendation letter looks
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The bigots who complain about lack of integration in UK societies are missing one key question. How can you integrate into a society that is inherently hostile? Just been reading
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Our history is complex, as is inevitably the case for any nation state of at least 1,200 years. Re-writing parts of that history, or seeking to erase them because they
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