January 2011
1 post
“It is easy to shoot your foot off with git, but also easy to revert to a...”
– Jack William Bell, taken from this amazing slide deck on why git is awesome
June 2010
3 posts
A New York “superhero” is memorialized and now... →
“To be happy now and content later, you can’t only be focused on reaching goals,...”
– You are not so smart - probably my favorite blog of 2010
Why Change Is So Hard: Self-Control Is Exhaustible... →
(via Instapaper)
May 2010
1 post
“David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager, created a culture where everyone from...”
– All the Obama 20-Somethings - NYTimes.com (via Instapaper)
February 2010
2 posts
2 tags
Teaching advice part 2 - Procrastinate
See the first post in this series for background.
2. Don’t write daily lesson plans in advance
It seems like a great idea - do all that preparation work during the summer so that you have less stress while teaching. Unfortunately, it’s been my experience that this is one of those rare times where procrastination really pays off.
The problem with planning ahead is that all new teachers, no...
Record Tripping →
An amazing game
January 2010
3 posts
2 tags
Teaching advice part 1 - Observe others
There’s a lot of advice for new teachers. Leading up to my first year as a teacher, I was inundated with tips, suggestions, strategies, frameworks and ready-to-go resources. Although all of it was given with good intentions, it was difficult to find the few pieces of advice that were relevant and useful to me and my personality.
The following series of posts is my effort to distill the few...
Awesome flying drawbridge →
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Books I loved in 2009
My 2009 reading list is much much smaller than this one (132 books in a year?!), but I thought it worthwhile to list the few books this year that I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to others.
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America - Donna Foote
The book does a really good job portraying the life of a typical TFA CM - the issues that make TFA so challenging...
December 2009
1 post
Carbon Free Sugar! « Cooking For Geeks →
October 2009
3 posts
Lauren McCarthy's Happiness Hat →
Shared by Dhruv
I should probably use this
it measures your smile and stabs you if you’re not smiling sufficiently [via]
Charles Kenny on why TV, not Facebook or Twitter,... →
Simply giving a village access to cable TV, research by scholars Robert Jensen and Emily Oster has found, has the same effect on fertility rates as increasing by five years the length of time…
“It makes no difference whether you write a paper for a medical journal, five...”
– Atul Gawande