This is the essay I wrote for my application to Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. I am applying to HGSE’s Learning Design, Innovation and Technology program because as a student, educator, and programmer, I have experienced the power of a creative technology education at its best. With the right mix…

I’ve been one, I’ve taught them, and I have two of my own. Here are the books that have stood out. — 3rd/4th grade reading level The BFG, The Witches, George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl. Brilliant, gently scary, surprising, delightful. Mix of genders of main characters. Wayside School series by Louis Sachar: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Wayside School is Falling Down, and Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar — basically Jorge…

A letter of welcome to my classmates at Harvard’s School of Education Hi classmates, I wanted to take a moment to recognize that today is an important day to Jewish students (like me), and to try to tell you about it, if you’re interested. I’m especially aware that many of…

I learned this concept from a fellow student at Harvard Grad School of Education yesterday: “Reforms that aren’t reformist”. Apparently, this concept comes from the prison abolition movement (and, I’m guessing, many radical movements before them). These activists have a passionate vision of fundamental transformation — a truly, radically different…

@ProductHunt recently asked, “What’s a product that needs reinventing?” Here are my answers: Klout. Remember this short-lived startup, that promised to track your reputation across the whole internet? I should be able to filter any site, any phone call, etc. for the credibility and track record of other users…

In my grad schoolwork, I came across the following uncredited passage: The local history of racism and inequity in Memphis has tangible implications for students today. Schools in Memphis remain highly segregated more than 65 years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Supreme Court decision that…

There are many laws I wish the Democrats would pass, which have heavy lobbying against them, and would be opposed by many conservative voters. I wish these bills would pass, but they probably wouldn’t. And if they did pass, Dems would have to spend political capital to get them through. …

A productivity hack that’s finally made its way into the base code — Chrome version 88 came out on January 19, 2021, and it quietly introduced a feature that users have been asking for for years. I’ve been using this feature in Chrome’s “Canary” beta version for several months, and it’s become crucial to how I work. It’s called “Window Naming”. Window Naming…

My highest recommendations, in a nutshell: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino Exhalation by Ted Chiang Dawn by Octavia E. Butler Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Chodos-Irvine Anastasia series by Lois Lowry Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Guts by Raina Telgemeier Sections: Fiction Comics Children’s books Plays Nonfiction Other years 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015…