Authenticity

🤔 INTERESTING

Every corner of the internet is buzzing with “AI this” or “AI that.” 😵‍💫 

I’m still working out how I feel about it as a teacher. but love it or hate it, it’s here to stay. I wonder if people will one day look at AI-assisted writing in English class the we way we look at calculators in Math.

On the other hand:

📐 DESIGN

The books I most often recommend to start learning visual thinking:

1. Visual Thinking by Williemien Brand

2. Visual Doing by Williemien Brand

3. Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams

4. Illustration School: Let's Draw a Story by Sachiko Umoto

🔮 ENCHANTING 

We complete each other.

🧠 ANALOGY

It is the cracked pot that lets the light in.
-Leonard Cohen

Not a direct quote, but a paraphrased one.

This image drew up some challenging comments on Instagram. A few people remarked how they were betrayed by revealing too much to the people they trusted.

This reminded me how I’ve been burned too, more times than I can count. In fact, the one thing I remember from my dad growing up is how many times his friends swindled him out of his hard-earned money because he revealed too many scars, which created real fears in me around trust.

But I’ve also been lucky to meet people who restored some of that trust.
• An art teacher who encouraged me out of a sea of 4,000 other low-income, public school students to keep creating.
• An elderly Japanese man in Hiroshima who saw me lost in the train station and spent 2 hours to help me get to where I was going.
• A friend I just met in Thailand inviting me over to share in Christmas dinner and presents so I wouldn’t spend the holidays alone.

Some scars heal and some scars fester. All I know is I saw what the festering did to my dad and that’s something I’d like to avoid.

I’m curious, how do you navigate revealing who you are on social media?

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