Year in Review — 2024
Year in Review posts are some of my favorite posts to write. They're the encapsulation of this blog's namesake: to create the space for retrospection, taking deliberate time to mull over...
Thoughts
Exaggeration for Grievance
One rhetorical device I'll sometimes use is "exaggeration for effect." It's just another way of employing hyperbole, which is less about the precision of the description, but to create...
A Kiddom Retrospective
When I left my role at Mystery Science in the summer of 2021, I was left…a bit wanting. I expressly wanted to explore the EdTech space as my kids came of schooling age, but...
Jigsaw Puzzle Solving
Jigsaw puzzles are an invention of a bygone era. As an entertainment product, it's antithetical to modern trends. It's a slow activity, where the finished product is readily available on the...
AI Optimism
When the hype cycle around AI was picking up a few years back, there was this pervasive fear that we were on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). ChatGPT and its ilk were such...
Main Character Syndrome
Put yourself in their shoes. It's an idiom taught at a young age[1]; I think I introduced this to my children sometime around kindergarten. Of course, kids have to be reminded—consistently—...