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18 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This is good stuff, and it resonates pretty powerfully with my experience helping Casey navigate the college application process.
Her job wasn't to get the colleges to like her. Her job was to let the colleges know who she was, so they could make an informed decision as to whether to admit her or not.
There were several times in the process where she was struggling with what to write in (or for, or as) an essay, and where she landed every time was "write something real."
Finding the real thing wasn't always easy, but having that as the goal was what got her through to the other side.

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19 Apr
One thing to note about Andrew Sullivan's ongoing race-realism rant, now dozens if not hundreds of tweets long: He hasn't used the word "Black" once in it yet.
There are some quiet parts he's still unwilling to say out loud.
And just to make this really explicit, Blackness is central to Andrew Sullivan's interest in race. Search his timeline for "African," and you'll see him going on and on about Black violence just a few days ago.
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Yep. As a vaccinated person I'm doing basically the same thing. Double-masking when indoors, particularly in crowded or constricted spaces or for extended periods, a light cloth or surgical mask outside.
I pretty much assume I'd be pretty much safe outdoors without a mask at this point, but other people don't know I'm vaxed, and some have a different risk tolerance than me, so I haven't devoted much thought to the question. Because being considerate is a sufficient justification.
If there's nobody anywhere near me and I've got good lines of sight so I know nobody's going to stumble across me suddenly, I'll take my mask out when I'm outside, too.
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Andrew Sullivan's tweets from today are really quite breathtaking—he spent the evening both attacking people for claiming he believes in innate racial differences in intelligence and mocking people for suggesting that innate racial differences in intelligence don't exist.
I may do a detailed exegesis of this stuff later, but just go look. I defy anyone to construct a coherent narrative of the affirmative case Sullivan is making about race and intelligence out of the stuff he said on here today.
None of this is new with him, but usually he lets a bit of time elapse between the "I'm not a racist" rants and "if you don't believe in innate racial difference you don't believe in science" rants. Tonight he did both at the same time, and it's really something to see.
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Tommy Lasorda once said managers are juggling eight or ten considerations when they debate a pitching change. Smart fans will be aware of about three, and they'll actually usually get the cost-benefit analysis of those three right. Where they fail is missing the others.
Which is not to say experts are always right, or that MLB managers never make bonehead calls based on weird whims. But I found the quote really useful and try to remember it.
An interesting side note: If you're an armchair critic, you're screwing up if you're not properly assessing all eight factors. But if you're an activist trying to influence policy, that's not actually your job—your job is to become the ninth factor.
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I've been seeing a wave of evidence of burnout in my students the last few weeks, and reports I'm hearing from other faculty at my college suggest I'm not alone.
The second half of the Spring 2020 semester was pretty much a writeoff in my classes, but we were mostly on track and functioning in the fall. This semester? A lot more students starting to fall through the cracks.
I think the anniversary of the lockdown hit a lot of students really hard—when we went online in March 2020, it was presented as a temporary measure. Now we're well past a year with no end in sight.
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On Wednesday, the Yale Daily News ran this story recounting a series of allegations against law professor Amy Chua.
The next day, Chua released an open letter accusing the YDN of bungling the story and the law school administration of improperly leaking confidential files. abovethelaw.com/uploads/2021/0…
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