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on self-control and the trouble with discipline, pt 1
As someone who often struggled with self-control as a child and who is strongly resistant to being disciplined (even now; my twitter handle is undisciplined, after all), I bristled when I first saw the...
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on self-control and the trouble with discipline, pt 2: troubling images
Yesterday, I listed off 4 reasons (among many others) for why I refuse/reject/resist using or claiming the terms, “self-control” or “discipline”: one: They conjure up damaging images and reinforce...
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An undisciplined experiment with digital storytelling
Almost 10 years ago, STA and I did two digital videos about the Puotinen family farm. While the films that we made in 2002/2003 weren’t technically sophisticated (we used iMovie, a built-in microphone...
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An Undisciplined Account: the context
In my last post, I discussed my undisciplined experiment with digital storytelling. In my digital video, I reflected on my first-grade report card and was curious about why my “lack of self-disciple”...
View ArticleWords of wisdom on the limits of (pseudo) troublemaking
This morning, I’m trying to sort through some links that I either emailed to myself or marked on my Safari Reading list. While reading through one, Sasha Frere-Jones’ Good Things with Twitter, I...
View ArticleDisciplinary Expertise?
According to Harold Gardner in The Disciplined Mind, written in 1999: In contrast to the naive student or the information-crammed but still ignorant adult, an expert is a person who really does think...
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