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The reason I publish five blog posts a week is because it gets me to write five blog posts a week.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t. There are always more important or urgent things to do — like mowing the lawn. And sleep.
I know not everyone operates this way, and not everyone has to, but for me, publishing is the catalyst of creation. I publish so that the ideas show up.
Read MoreI started making videos on TikTok as an experiment.
That’s sort of like taking heroin as an experiment. Both practices mess with your neurotransmitters like crazy and can take over your life.
Creators on TikTok are rewarded with attention early on, meaning that I now have an audience of a size that I was not adequately prepared for.
Read MoreI keep getting asked how I feel about closing my school after ten years.
It’s a question I appreciate because it’s thoughtful and empathic. It’s also a question I have no idea how to answer.
On the last day of school, I felt the same bittersweetness I’ve felt on every last day of school. We enjoy the togetherness and camaraderie of what we’ve built together and the slight relaxing of social norms as the line between teachers and students blurs just slightly.
Read MoreMy uncle, whom I quote all the time on this blog, has a saying that he shares with those who are uncertain about the future.
He says, “Do the next right thing. And when you don’t know the next right thing, do the next thing right.”
This solves a lot of problems. There are so many times that I’ve been unsettled and listless only to realize that I was making life way more complicated than it needed to be. All I needed to do was drive safely to my destination, slice this tomato evenly, or fold this towel.
Read MoreIt's ironic that, as I work with adolescents to prepare them for future education and their eventual career, they may well be headed for a field or profession that doesn't even exist right now.
Most of what I do for a living was beyond my imagination when I was thirteen, whether because technology had not yet made it possible or simply because of my own ignorance of the existing possibilities.
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