Kechi Ladapo

The plan boiled down to the following: Make students write more all through the core, and improvement will follow. It really wasn’t a bad premise. But reading samples of student papers semester after semester, I wasn’t sure it quite delivered. Why not? I have four reasons to propose here that are relevant to the rest of us.

1. The best writers read a

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On a platform that caters to short attention spans, the more outrageous the content, the more attention it will get.

Welcome!Hi love, my name is Ayana Zaire Cotton.I’m an artist, learner, writer, software engineer, and founder of Seeda School, a skill building platform for learning how to worldbuild through a black feminist lens.

Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande

Trish Thomas

Principal & Lead Strategist at Akamai Strategy, Founder of Lark Builders

March 12, 2016

I just had the privilege of discovering this beautiful letter from a father to a daughter as she stepped into the great unknown. Yolande was the daughter of W.E.B. DuBois and went abroad to a... See more

To read slowly, attentively, without agenda or distraction is to resist. Not with noise or spectacle, but with the quiet, deliberate force of contemplation. In an economy built on speed and stimulus, deep reading becomes an act of principled refusal. It defies the algorithm’s logic of efficiency, the newsfeed’s velocity, the platform’s hunger for... See more

"The Internet, too, offered enchantment. Presence without proximity. Transformation without consequence. Pleasure without limit. But enchantment, eventually, turns to disenchantment. Not all at once. You start to realize the world around you is not quite human. It is more than not quite human. It is monstrous. You were never meant to stay there.... See more