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2026-01-28: Four Traditions Revisited
2023-07-19: Twenty-Five Years and Counting
2023-07-14: Performance Review Counterexamples
2022-12-29: The Fourth Tradition
2022-08-07: The Sisyphus Test
2021-06-30: That Seems Simple to Me
2021-02-20: Asteroids and Dinosaurs
2020-07-09: Thoughts from a Not-So-Influential Educator
2020-01-07: Goodbye, Mum
2019-07-27: Doing Good and Getting Paid
2019-06-13: Martha's Rules
2019-05-04: In the Classroom
2019-04-24: Ten Quick Tips for Reviewing Lessons
2019-04-20: Leading Questions for Creating a Learning Commons
2019-04-15: An Exchange with DataCamp
2019-02-04: Classifying Data
2019-01-30: Why I Teach (Revisited)
2018-12-02: OER Landmines
2018-11-24: Afraid of Change
2018-11-03: Abstraction and Comprehension
2018-08-13: Authoring
2018-05-11: Meetings
2018-05-06: Cigarettes and Shopify
2018-03-20: Goodbye, Jeff
2018-03-16: Seven Ways to Think Like a Programmer
2017-12-17: Consider the Bicycle
2015-12-06: Just Keep Swimming
2015-11-09: Daddy, Why Don't You Ever Laugh?
2015-09-22: Goodbye, Dad
2015-06-11: Why We Can't Have Nice Things
2014-03-14: Is Learning at Scale Just Another Name for Ubiquitous Surveillance in the Classroom?
2013-02-11: Correctness Isn't Compelling
2012-10-23: Twenty Percent
2012-01-21: We Have Nothing To Give Them

Anecdotes

2025-10-07: Story Dice
2025-10-05: Loading the Dishwasher
2024-12-12: Long Evenings
2024-11-07: Stained Glass
2024-09-23: A Bag of Hippos
2024-05-18: Pirates
2024-04-19: Because of You
2024-03-31: A Bus Ticket
2024-01-27: Caught Stealing
2024-01-20: The Moon and Tears
2024-01-14: Is There a Word for That?
2024-01-14: Angry for Myself
2023-12-31: Tattoos
2023-12-11: Build Robots When You Can
2023-10-21: Heaven and Dirty Dishes
2023-07-30: Who Won?
2023-07-29: A Hike on the Isle of Skye
2023-07-27: I Don't Think It's Going to Be Better
2023-07-16: A Book and a Typewriter
2023-06-12: Nice Shirt
2023-06-07: A Slow-Motion Garden
2023-05-27: Can I Fix Your Stairs?
2023-05-10: Windchimes
2023-04-25: The Pergola