Weekly Pose Ponder No. 17
Summarizing the week's posts -- what's coming up, thinking and acting, Taking Readings, getting reading under control, American Yawp
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I feel like I’m rolling out an Agenda these days by pushing for collaboration for the sake of lifelong learning, for the sake of being good humans in the Anthropocene.
It’s funny how the word “collaborate” has both highly positive and highly negative connotations. I guess it all depends on whom you’re collaborating with and to what end. If someone yelled, “You collaborator, you!” I’d be okay with that.
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Learning, Liberty, and Progress
Welcome back after the break. Today is Meta Monday offering a short preview of what’s to come here at Pose Ponder over the next three weeks. Pose Ponder publishes daily on weekdays, 3 weeks on, 1 week off. I’m really liking these weeks “off” especially in the height of summer. It’s an opportunity to step back, reflect on what I’m trying to accomplish, wo…
Building the Middle
Let’s stipulate that “thinking” is a complex endeavor comprised of input — reading, watching, listening, exploring IRL (in real life) — reflecting, and expressing, maybe in writing. It’s short for a set of contributory activities that, when they merge effectively, make us better not only mentally, but as actors and as humans. If we can think
Who Has Read More Books
Slight exaggeration. I’ve read a lot of books. I own a lot of books. I’ve hauled a lot of boxes of books all over the country. Yes, I do Kindle, too — not enough. I have never known such a prolific reader — mostly of exactly the same kinds of books I read myself, and I have fairly quirky tastes(!) — who has not only read but prolifically
Getting Reading Under Control
A while back, I received an alumni newsletter from my alma mater, and the editor was talking about a New Years resolution to read more books. She had recalled a blog post she’d read a couple decades before, to the effect that if you calculated how many books you read per month, how many months you reasonably have left to live, and how many books that wo…
American YAWP
Today’s Friday resource came back to my attention when Dan Allosso mentioned it as part of his course prep for teaching American History this fall. All hail open access textbooks “massively collaboratively” produced! Without further ado, please go explore: