Blog
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If You Just Got Here, Start With This
This is the front door. If you’ve just landed on my blog, read this first. It’s the short…
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Find Me. I’m Trying to Find You.
An open letter to my former students. I lost 4,000 of you when my Facebook was hacked. I’ve…
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I Used an AI as a Lab Rat to Test 650 Creativity Exercises
650 creativity exercises needed testing at scale. The solution: feed them to an AI one at a time…
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Meet Me Where You Are
My entire teaching philosophy fits in one question: where are you, and how can I lead you to…
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I Wasn’t Worth Much, But I Could Pick Up Trash
When I lost everything at 38 — my business, my marriage, my house, my children — I sat…
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AI Didn’t Change What Good Teaching Is. It Just Made It Harder to Pretend.
AI can deliver information better than most professors. That’s true, and it’s not the threat people think it…
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Who Should Be Driving Your University’s AI Policy? (Hint: It’s Not the IT Department)
Ninety percent of universities are already integrating AI into teaching and research. Seventy-one percent of faculty say they…
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Build the Room
About This Post: Somewhere around my late forties, I realized I had spent a decade taking pretty pictures…
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Mission Drift: We Changed the Definition of Success
We used to agree on what a good company did. Somewhere along the way, that agreement got rewritten;…
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AI Empowers the Thinkers
The people worried about AI replacing them are usually the ones who were already depending on shortcuts. The…
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Your AI Tool Is Optimized to Sound Like It’s Done
Your AI tool is optimized to respond quickly and sound complete. That’s not a bug — it’s the…
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The Room in the Tool Nobody Showed You
Most faculty are using about 20% of what is in their AI tool. The section built specifically for…
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The Question That Fixed My Worst Assignment
Paste your assignment into AI and ask how a student could pass it without thinking. What comes back…
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Why Google Maps Still Can’t Think Like a Local
Google Maps can’t think like a local — not because it lacks data, but because local knowledge isn’t…
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The Last Time I Saw Jay
The last time I saw Jay, he was happier than I had ever seen him. I didn’t understand…