Thought of this one after witnessing a grown man have a tantrum in public. There but for the grace…
Time is not a butler
Newspaper + Marker = Poetry. Buy the book.
Tomorrow is February
Today’s newsletter is about the shortest month and what to do with it.
The map is not the territory
After I posted Tuesday’s newsletter about how I hit an “invisible wall” at the edge of a map of my understanding, I came across these two familiar quotes:
1. “A map is not the territory.”
—Alfred Korzybski (via the comments)
2. “It’s not down in any map; true places never are.”
—Melville, Moby-Dick (misquoted in Bob Dylan’s Nobel lecture)
Filed under: maps
Analog Ctrl-Z
In today’s newsletter, I demonstrate how I use a dry erase marker and a transparency sheet to make poems like this one:
Trying to Teach Your Kids the Kind of Math They Teach in School Now
I made this blackout after observing my wife teach my kids math out of a workbook that uses techniques that confuse our Elder Millennial brains. Here’s a decent explanation for why Common Core math problems look so weird:
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