I was at a 5 day Project NExT workshop. I heard from a lot of interesting people and learned a lot about teaching. The thing that stood out to me the most was just how different math researchers are from math educators. Math researchers mostly share a feeling of contempt toward people, people are . . . Read more

A conference is a good concept in theory but entirely absurd in practice. You take a complete break from your daily life, delegate all your responsibilities to others, hope that your house and your class does not burn down in your absence and head off to some obscure place to listen to strangers . . . Read more

“You are right, Watson,” said he. “It does seem a most preposterous way of settling a dispute.” “Most preposterous!” I exclaimed, and then suddenly realizing how he had echoed the inmost thought of my . . . Read more

Here's something I have been thinking about a lot lately, thanks mostly to my being on the internet almost constantly. We live in a world where we can just google the answer to many of the questions that arise in day-to-day life. This is great in that it is harder to lie about things and this inc . . . Read more

“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels wi . . . Read more

Meditation sucks at first. It sucks badly for a long long time. It is SO bad, SO sucky. The harder you try the more you suck at it. But it is hubris to assume that you would naturally be an expert at it. I have been trying it on and off unsuccessfully for many years. Only now, thanks to the lockd . . . Read more

It was Thanksgiving Day and we had gotten lucky. There were three of us driving to the Grand Canyon and exactly three others had canceled their reservations. Our bags packed with food and water, enough to last a couple of days, overjoyed, we started descending the canyon. You walk and you . . . Read more

Ever since the lockdown, first thing in the morning, before I can even open my groggy eyes, I check the news. But no more. There is a concept I first heard about on Joe Rogan’s podcast which was an eye-opener. We have our “circle of control” and our “circle of conce . . . Read more

I haven’t been able to write enough the past year. That’s because I haven’t been able to read enough the past year. Poem. The joys of teaching at a public university have been a tad too satiating for me, but they have prepared me well for this new so . . . Read more

I have been reading Stephen Fry’s Making History and it got me thinking about history and my hate-love relationship with it. Growing up, there was a hierarchy of subjects at school. Maths, “science 1&rd . . . Read more