the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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no kings includes draftkings

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Update : my happy neighbour has discovered the map feature on the seatback screen. She's taking a video out the window of Winnipeg's city lights, then zooming in on Winnipeg on the map. She's having a great time

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i am typing this somewhat surreptitiously; I don't know if she reads English (we were chatting en français) and wouldn't want her to be embarrassed by my tweeting it. however I think it is kickass to experience the miracle of flight as an actual miracle and not as the banal mess that many of us do

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Fun part of my work: Recommending great scholarship to students working on research papers. Much Less Fun: Steering students away from problematic work and scholars and figuring out how to objectively explain the issues.

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