Dana 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 she/her

Finland more or less eliminated private schooling, and they've led the world on most educational metrics.

taking constant psychic damage from nonstop doom scrolling all day today:

Stoic reminders from Marcus Aurelius: 1. Your task is to be good 2. If it’s humanly possible, you can do it 3. Most people are doing the best they can 4. The obstacle IS the way 5. Applause and fame are worthless 6. Life is short

good morning

My generalized anxiety teaming up with my current very specific anxiety:

Nothing recharges me for another workweek like 48 hours of laundry, cleaning, food shopping, and everything else I didn’t have time for last week

To procrastinate is to be entitled. It is arrogant. It assumes there will be a later. It assumes you’ll have the discipline to get to it later (despite not having the discipline now).

A note for tomorrow: ANYONE WHO IS TRICK-OR-TREATING AT FIFTEEN IS PRESUMPTIVELY CLINGING TO THE RITUALS OF CHILDHOOD AT THE MOST DISCOMBOBULATING MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES. THROW CANDY AND KINDNESS AT THEM

My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land.

they would fucking rock a Mr & Mr Smith

@heymrsbond Yes, and I do because my school wants to be “one of the leading AI schools in the world,” but before students can be AI literate, they need to be actually literate and ethical humans already. AI is great for students who already excel, but it is completely destructive for most.

I'm very proud to have this poem in remembrance of my greatest teacher (from @Harvard) in the new issue of @rustandmoth. Here's to the teachers who truly change our lives.

Here’s the thing: the musicality of language, the poetry, is part of what draws readers into a book and makes them fall in love. If you strip away all the beauty from a novel like The Great Gatsby, you’re not making it more accessible; you’re making it unreadable.

My kid transcribed something her teacher said in class today and is it giving it to her as a gift tomorrow.

Are you afraid of making a mistake? 🤔 #nationalcreativityday #creativity

6 tests that might save your life: 1. Coronary calcium scan 2. Cancer screening 3. Colonoscopy 4. ApoB Cholesterol Test 5. DEXA scan 6. Brain imaging If you're wondering where to get these tests ask your local doctor.