I have found that most chicken paprika recipes are disappointingly lacking in spice. The last time I made one, I wound up slamming in what felt like half a canister of Hungarian paprika, and my Slavic ancestors were *still* unsatisfied.

The goal is never to have no rules, no standards, no structure. The goal is to have rules and standards and structure that serve your students' needs, your needs, and the needs of the material—rules and standards and structure that facilitate teaching and learning rather than gatekeeping.

“and how eagerly and unquestioningly this daisy chain of apparatchiks and opportunists and independent operators and actual elected officials will apply themselves to that work.” 5/5

“how simple the culture has made it for someone with nothing but themselves on their mind to hurt someone they think they might benefit from hurting, …” 4/

“Much more important than whether this particular mediocre young person succeeds, and considerably more worrying, is how easy it all is, and how smooth and efficient the process is through which all this noise and damage is manufactured—“ 3/

“…but the goal here is not the creation of anything beautiful or even coherent so much as it is the making of constant, obliterating noise.”