February 2022
12 posts published in February 2022.
The Best Video Essays of All Time (IMO)The video essay is not a brand new art form and it wasn’t created from scratch by YouTube’s algorithmic interest in long-form video that increases…InspirationLearning
I am a Crypto and Blockchain Luddite.In the 18th and 19th centuries, the industrialization of textile equipment allowed for cheaper production of clothing and disempowerment of…humanityInspiration
Violence is not DissentLanguage is powerful. It has the ability to make us cry or move us to action in an instant. A few words, when written out and written on paper or…humanity
Community RulesI joined Twitter in March of 2007. In the five thousand four hundred and forty-six days since then, I have tweeted nearly 19,000 times. That is a…Learning
Our dishwasher is broken, and I like it that way.I just finished cleaning up the last of the detritus from our Super Bowl Festivities last night. We had a neighbor family over for “the big game”…humanityInspiration
I’m not a good neighbor.My house, and more importantly my driveway, face to the south. This means that at no time during the day, does my house throw shade onto my…
Am I a Bank now?I set up my first bank account with Wells Fargo when I arrived for college in Colorado during the fall in 2001. It was in the local Safeway branch…
From Mastery to InquiryI have often considered Mastery to be the thing to which all students should strive. I have thought of it as the pinnacle of achievement in any…LearningThinking
Parents vs. Teachers?I am not entirely sure when it happened, but at some point in the last 50 years, teachers became “Other.” They became people who come from outside…Learning
Fascism isn’t cool… for long.Teenagers are a construct that has propelled popular culture forward for 100 years. But, prior to the end of the first World War, they mostly…humanity
Asking ForgivenessI ran across an incredibly insightful tweet this week, one that I could not ignore or get out of my head since I saw it: A1: Forgiveness is not a…Growth
Why I left Public Education (and then came back).In November of 2010, I became the first ever Online Community Manager for Edmodo. I was the 13th employee at a startup that was barely two years…GrowthLearning