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Chess and go don’t need extremely high IQs, it’s mostly about the amount of time you invest in practice. I get annoyed by that cliche that playing chess, go, or with a rubik’s cube has anything to do with intelligence and it’s cringy to watch students on campus posing with their cubes to make an impression :)

You can pirate the ads and quizzes

Is that at the beach or in their infinite bed?

technically the same is true for chess and go, we’re just too dumb to grasp them to the extent we can grasp tic-tac-toe

Different prof here, but a few thoughts:

• academia is not as shiny as it sometimes seems, but it can be great. You can have a lot of freedom to do what you like, work when you like, how you like… do meaningful things. Not always, but the chance is there
• it’s not to get rich. Selling expensive textbooks is rookie level exploitation compared to what people do in the industry, and most of the profit doesn’t even go to the prof

The book to read for this is “the professor is in”. The author takes quite a cynical perspective about academia, but in many ways it’s true. Worth a read (and probably you can get it for cheap second hand)

This guy also found a pretty nice (similar) solution for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3CY6RR4uns

They basically wrote their own textbook through class assignments, students are co-authors, seems to work great in their case. At least that’s how he presents it.

I’m still a bit unsure how to handle that in my own classes. There are not always suitable OERs or the ones you find come with licensing issues (CC-NC and afaik it’s not clear if you can use them because I do teach for the money).

On the plus side, it probably only gets better from there!

“welcome” :)

At least he didn’t suggest that health insurance should use a deny, delay, and defend strategy for insurance claim payments

huh, I thought they would bake him :)

I was about to agree on the macOS part, but Gnome is really terrible in terms of UX. They are good at eye candy and unfortunately don’t seem to know the difference between a pretty and a good UI.