Week Notes for May 4th 2025
Before we get into it, here's your weekly Cybertruck video courtesy of my dashcam. I have so many of these videos so why not just start dropping them in here?
Even though the truck is ugly at least they are great drivers, right?
Here's what happened this week:
- Finished my essay for a book on teaching that will be published probably in a few months in Italy. I'm thinking it is ok but could be better.
- Wrapped up the spring term. That means that this fall will be the start of year 19 of working as a professor.
- Started working in earnest on my summer projects, which include two big video lecture series. We'll see if anyone watches them.
- My essay that is over a year old came out in Argumentation & Advocacy What a long process that was! Taylor & Francis isn't interested in being a good publisher, they just want to make free money off of academics. We let them!
- Read Jefferson Fisher's book The Next Conversation and I'm going to make a YouTube video review of it. Spoiler: It's terrible.
- Starting to read the most recent biography of Alexis de Toqueville
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/man-who-understood-democracy-life-alexis-de-tocqueville
Here's this week's Music Listening see what you think. Obsessed with Ariana's new album.
https://www.last.fm/user/Professor_Steve/listening-report/year/2025/week/17