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Efficiency and Innovation

Efficiency is about doing well with the lowest possible investments of resources. Put that way, efficiency sounds like a good thing (it…

Mar 25

Mar 25

Widerstand der Menschen, Widerstand der Dinge

Widerstand means resistance or opposition in German. Lately, I find myself thinking about two kinds of resistance — the resistance of…

Mar 2

Widerstand der Menschen, Widerstand der Dinge

Mar 2

Artificial Intelligence Evolving? Look out for Metaphors

When AI researchers and scientists talk about AI, they talk about it’s evolution towards increased power and sophistication — the way AI is…

Jan 26

Jan 26

AI and Uncertain Futures: We Need a Vision for a Human Future

Dec 28, 2024

Dec 28, 2024

Uncertainty, Attention, Education

Degree Recognition Speech, May 2023

May 10, 2024

May 10, 2024

Curiousity, Cooperation

In the past year, I’ve stepped into the role of Dean at the University of Utah’s Honors College….so I have the privilege/obligation to…

May 10, 2024

May 10, 2024

Never Enough? On continuous growth versus what sustains us

Unfettered Achievement Motivation

Nov 27, 2021

Never Enough? On continuous growth versus what sustains us

Nov 27, 2021

Building Relational Elements into Online Courses: A Manifesto

In November, I wrote about the problem of motivation in online courses and my belief that we, as educators, need to attend to solutions…

Apr 14, 2021

Apr 14, 2021

Another Family’s Photos in the Middle of the Night, or the Value in Mystery

The other night, our 15-year-old daughter came down to our bedroom in deep distress. She had been taking a shower, and while she was in…

Apr 6, 2021

Another Family’s Photos in the Middle of the Night, or the Value in Mystery

Apr 6, 2021

Mental Health, Pass-Fail Grading, Online Pedagogy

I came across an article this weekend about a provost under fire from students for an apparently callous response to their concerns about…

Apr 5, 2021

Mental Health, Pass-Fail Grading, Online Pedagogy

Apr 5, 2021

Monishapasupathi

Monishapasupathi

Professor of Psychology. Dean of Honors College. Dabbler in art, outdoors, and creative writing. Views are my own.

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