Last year, a terrible thing happened to me on the internet, and that caused me to nuke all of my social media accounts. I revived them a couple of months later and tried to pare down my presence to the bare minimum. But something about the medium, especially when you are a public person (of … Continue reading The Myth of Private Lives as Necessary Commodity
Though I don’t feel I need to explain myself, I thought I would note that I’m disabling all public social media till probably next year. It’s a rough time nationally, globally and personally I’m trying to set my house in order health-wise and professional commitments-wise. I have many deadlines to meet and my work/students/research remains … Continue reading Silences
For various reasons including work and students, I’m really not comfortable posting detailed music practice and composition notes here, hence deletions. But there are also other reasons connected to why I don’t post my to-do lists online anymore for creative writing and academic projects. Those things are a legacy of our early days journaling online, … Continue reading Brief Note On Music Progress Notes
I’ve been talking to my regular online friends about isolation and friendship, about how isolation (for those of us who have been adhering to lockdown/pandemic protocols since last March) makes us do, think and feel weird things. It’s not an easy time, even for those of us who are lifelong hardcore introverts. Even introverts need … Continue reading In these strange, strange times of isolation
I can never bear to listen to myself on the radio but my supervisees have, and they assure me it’s safe to link this so — I was on BFM again earlier today. Two days ago the show producer asked if I’d answer some questions about introducing AI into education for kids, so I recorded … Continue reading On The Radio Again