Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

I work in a college IT department. I'm thinking the resources spent sending me the cold emails to use your company for the cookie fundraiser are wasted.

We all have the same calendaring tool. We can see others' calendars . I still get "are you available Tuesday at 9:00?" emails.

“All we have to do is x” is always followed by a bad idea.

The things that “don’t matter” often do.

Every now and then I think about the science teacher who told me she thinks there “must be something true about astrology.” 🤦‍♂️

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We think we know what motivates students.

The cure for the misuse of science is not censorship, but clearer explanations, vigorous debates, and making science accessible to everyone. -Carl Sagan

Yes, some geniuses were ignored. If you are bing ignored. That does not mean you are a genius.

We are dismissing your ideas because they have been rejected for a very long time, not because you are being treated unfairly.

He who allows oppression share the crime. -Erasmus Darwin

Convoluted arguments that are difficult to refute are not necessarily correct.

For convenience, I took a bus recently. I’m a fan.

Fertile imaginations explain a lot. The quality of the explanations may not be great, but the quantity is.

If you can’t be proven wrong, you can’t be taken seriously.

You need a catcher, otherwise you are going to have a lot of passed balls. -Casey Stengel

Speculation is often conflated with evidence. Let’s learn to differentiate the two.

Be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce comfortable ideas.

Interpretations and inferences are not the same.

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