Pedro Parrachia

You’re talking to a person at a party and his or her attention is elsewhere, annoyingly. How do you get their attention back to you, and then hold it?

For me, that’s the essence of my approach to writing.

An enabling environment significantly expands its participants’ capacity to do things they find meaningful and important.

Schools ostensibly aspire to this purpose, butEducational objectives often subvert themselvesin large part becauseEnabling environments’ activities directly serve an intrinsically meaningful purpose. In general,Enabling environme

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Both True: “The customer is always right” and “The audience doesn’t know what they want”

“What did you find?” Genevieve was still poking at the Phoenix data, looking at the greatest needs reported in the city and the average wait times on calls to FEMA, 911, the fire department, appliance repair. 

“It’s got her dorm.” Toba sounded a little dazed. “It shows how many people are there right now — phone data, I think — and what shops a

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