Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Avoid single reasons and single villains.

I’m trying new strategy for expanding my professional library... if the table of contents resembles something I would write, I skip it. Self-reinforcing libraries are echo chambers too.

“I now hold entirely different views,” are not words often heard today.

What if (contrary to what were were told 15 or 20 years ago) Wikipedia really is full of credible information?

So much that is “data driven” turns out to be “myth driven.”

If your efforts to “innovate” seek to return to the “glory” of the past... just stop... you misremember the past, and we were probably jerks back then.

If your efforts to “innovate” seek to return to the “glory” of the past... just stop... you misremember the past, and you were probably jerks back then.

Wondering why we need to keep putting volume, issue, page numbers in citations when we have a doi.

It is always strange when deceased colleague’s work anniversaries, birthdays, and other dates arrive in social media notifications.

Avoid “leading by buzzword.” Some of us can recognize it and we know what it means.

The older I get, the less tolerance I have for hypocrisy.

believe diagramming sentences helped me understand how to construct good sentences.

I really think essays are an under-appreciated genre.