Note all my tags…

(tags: ethology anthropology chimpanzees satire language culture)

Me, I do email and play word games.

(tags: scholarship time-management getting-things-done Macaulay Victorian worklife reading)

(tags: human diversity physiognomy eugenics anthropology political-correctness self-censorship)

(tags: history Zoroastrianism religion language Persian)

“It is now de rigueur to praise a scholar’s erudition and generosity of wisdom; but without the smart snide correctives of play and battle, without the threat of being one-upped, without the contest, that joyous and accepting refusal which might align the

(tags: academia social-norms scholarship worklife)

“…I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy tr

(tags: Ben-Franklin transhumanism extropianism futurism 18C patahistory)

(tags: book-art paper-arts retrospective)

(tags: web-design web2.0 rails Privacy software instructions user-experience)

(tags: history 18C carnival blogging academia maps)

And so I wonder about the engrained nature of solo academic work, of individuals pitted against each other in competition, the the zero-sum game of pedagogy….

(tags: genius intelligence academia pedagogy praise cult-of-personality collaboration)

(tags: marketing business customer-relations-management PR user-experience humor)