Emily Van Tassel
- Three questions I’ve enjoyed the answers to lately 1) what’s the hardest thing you’d do if the rule was you couldn’t ever tell anyone about it? 2) a genie gives you three wishes, what do you ask for? 3) what game are you playing and what problem unlocks the next level?
- exert your taste on the world to live in a reality you’ve consciously created https://t.co/wKR6LMKBRo
- Bob Dylan on the otherworldliness of creativity (2004) “I don’t know how I got to write those songs. Those early songs were almost magically written.” It is reminiscent of how mathematical discoveries tend to speak themselves—not to the experienced—but to the young. Show moreart = magic
- In 1954, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey investigated a lag measure that parents around the country were increasingly worried about. “Parents,” Hersey writes, “[are] in dismay that their children can not read.” For 2 years, Hersey read children’s books, met with experts, and attended schools to observe how reading was taught. “It became o... See moreThe origin story of Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat