How I chose my favorite thousand words
In this companion post, I explain how I designed my one-thousand-word “starter pack” of words to prioritize when first starting to learn a language.
1000-word starter pack for language learning
Here’s a list of one thousand words and phrases chosen to be useful to a beginning learner.
Quitting while you're behind
A few thoughts on the idea of “quitting while you’re behind”.
Ten things
I once saw a kooky old professor website with a page full of lists of ten things. I never found it again, but in tribute to that, here are some lists of ten things.
Semester In Review #1
I’ve finished my first semester of grad school! What strikes me immediately is disbelief. I started my year unsure of whether this day would ever come, and now I’m 10% done with an entire PhD.
Agile for Academia
I used to work a software engineering job in industry. There, we used a collection of practices loosely organized under the buzzwordy umbrella term Agile to manage and schedule our work. Here’s how I’ve adapted those for solo use as a PhD student.
The Connections vault
Here are some Connections puzzles I’ve written.
Syntax cookbook
Here’s a “cookbook” of various kinds of English syntax trees. This is my attempt at capturing a happy medium of what’s commonly introduced in introductory texts and my own undergrad syntax class.