While I love writing, I struggle to begin every time. I am told openings have to be catchy in an economy that competes for attention, where the abundance of choice is only a swipe away. Hooks become provocations, tending toward outrage in order to grab the reader with a firm hand and elicit a reaction, [...]
Metabolic ontology begins from a simple observation: nothing lives by remaining what it is. Existence persists only through continual transformation, through the conversion of decay into the conditions for further life. Entropy is not disorder but the movement that makes order temporary. Biology calls this metabolism: the exchange of matter, energy, and information that maintains [...]
Mastery- and competency-based assessment are the same old sorting and ranking system just in sheep’s clothing.Both start from the same ontological delusion: that something can be mastered, that we stand apart from knowledge, that learning is a discrete event that can be demonstrated once and then carried across every context. It’s the fantasy of decontextualization, [...]
Coconut Thinking 