Mikey Hayes
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Mikey Hayes
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Haud perditus inter arbores
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Roughly translates to never lost among the trees.
You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
I realize sharing this via screen-based technology (maybe) defeats the purpose. I don’t have everything figured out.
Middle Ground Compendium [No. 180] “Hourglass + Star”
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When “That” is Better Than “How”
Often when our goal is objective, a good way to achieve it is to think in terms of “how.” How we’ll get the funds to finance our business, how we’ll convince our friends to take a group vacation, how we’ll shape our piece of walnut into a hand carved spoon.
Fortunately, not every problem is best solved with a “how”
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Throughout his life Steinbeck signed his letters with his personal “Pigasus” logo, symbolizing himself “a lumbering soul but trying to fly.”
The Latin motto Ad Astra Per Alia Porci translates “To the stars on the wings of a pig.”
Books matter. Making them is a combination of craft and insight. Publishing them is a generous act of faith. Adding to the corpus of shared knowledge is important. Books change the culture when people act on them, even if they don’t sell many copies. And sometimes the backlist surprises the accountants.
But the economics of new books have nothing to... See more
But the economics of new books have nothing to... See more
Books don’t sell
Make it a Policy
Often, we prefer to avoid making mistakes and create algorithms (of sorts) composed of unique sets of values, resources, and trusted relationships to ease the decision making process.
While a multifaceted strategic assessment seems arduous, it can offer substantial benefits. The most noteworthy advantage of creating a helpful
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Open Notes [No. 11] - June 06, 2025