In my class, you surf alone and get feedback together

A note on the vibes of my 2024 UX class

23 things I learned in 2023 about how we communicate

Talking is exciting, infuriating, and wonderfully human. As an extrovert and a teacher, I think a lot about communication and how we can make it more enjoyable, intentional, and effective. Here’s a list of 23 observations I made during the tens of thousands of conversations I had in 2023.

Intellectual Nutrition Labels for Generative AI Products

If a generative AI had a nutrition label that said "100 brain calories per ChatGPT response", would that change how you use it? Nutrition could serve as a metaphor to understand why taking a tempered approach with generative AI might be important for our intellectual health. For starters,

How we learn is changing. Why am I worried?

In the storm of issues affecting education, finding the small wins could be the only way to keep the energy needed to progress.

Simplicity's Double-Edged Sword in the Information Age

The Challenges of Oversimplification in Modern Education and Technology

Embracing the AI Mindshift: From Google to ChatGPT

Exploring the evolution of information access, decision-making, and society's acceptance of more authoritative answers

How AI highlights the flaws in grading

ChatGPT didn't break education but it's a tempting scapegoat for lazy educators.

I have been thinking about education for 15 years

The other day I was digging through some notebooks in my drawer, and I realized how many of them had notes about education. Each page I flipped through warped my sense of time passing. Though some of them were 10 years old, the notes felt like they were written yesterday.

Positive negatives

Discovering content in the modern world is strangely beautiful and terrible

Sharing on social media sucks because we do it too much

I had a chilling thought yesterday about the effects of excessive exposure to everyone's thoughts online: It's easy to mock the excited posts of people celebrating new jobs and enjoying a small moment of victory in an otherwise difficult life. I used to dedicate my entire

The challenge with ranting as comedy

Finding a performance voice when battling with my natural tendencies.

The smiling moon

Barcelona was hot and humid beyond what we could tolerate, but walking around the beautiful city, visiting friends and eating delicious food made it worth it. At least it did for the first week and a half. In addition to the recommendations curated by one of our generous friends, we