Essays and short arguments.
Shorter work on AI, higher education, and what it means to do academic work right now. Also published on Substack. Or maybe you're looking for information on my forthcoming book on e-mentoring, co-authored with Dr. Cristina Baciu? Coming out Fall 2026. BEYOND THE CAMPUS The power of e-mentoring in modern higher education
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The one job I couldn't outsource
On running a nightly AI radio station for a town that doesn't exist, the crew of machines that built it, and the one job none of them could take.
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On prompting as aim rather than instruction, a sea of cups at different heights, and why every problem I solve turns out to be a word problem.
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On out-editing a chatbot across fourteen chapters, the editor persona I couldn't bring myself to delete, and the three deaths of ending a long session.
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What can we compare to AI in higher education?
On the mad-lib logic of comparing AI to email, and what the echoes of old faculty resistance still have to teach us.
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"It is the end of learning as we know it!" and the cycle of techno-doomerism
On the refrain teachers have been reciting since Socrates, and what's actually ending each time.
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Boxes and boxes, why doesn't it fit in all my little boxes
On our love of sorting AI into tidy little boxes, and why the world keeps handing us things that don't fit.
New essays every other Tuesday. Also on Substack.