This essay about how Twitter kills the desire to write long essays is pretty accurate for me. Where I differ, perhaps, is if that’s a bad thing or not. (A) Writing long essays can be just as addicting as Twitter. (B) Writing long essays takes a lot more time. (C) The essay is BETTER that the tweet, of course, but is it important to my life? Writing is not necessarily my raison d’etre. If I have other priorities higher than writing, then Twitter killing my desire to write long essays is a GOOD thing.

“By focusing on STEM subjects in isolation, or congratulating kids on studying engineering over elementary education, we are not only failing to challenge the idea that engineering is objectively harder, we are playing into the hands of a power structure that values industry more than humanity, and demands our complicity.”

Simpson’s Paradox thoughts

Flipped classrooms: watch lectures on video at home, do “homework” in class.

Flipped classrooms: watch lectures on video at home, do “homework” in class.

“interpersonal violence is a human adaptation, not unlike sexual activity, parental care, communication and so forth. It is something we see in every human society. Meanwhile, war — being historically recent, as well as erratic in worldwide distribution and variation in detail — is almost certainly a capacity. And capacities are neither universal nor mandatory.”