dr. amelia chesley
@plaidsicle.bsky.social
books are awesome and sleep is boring!
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
books are awesome and sleep is boring!
I invite my professional writing students every semester to read this alistapart.com/article/writ... with the hope that the idea sinks in for all the writing they ever go on to do
Writing Is Thinking
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…
alistapart.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I invite my professional writing students every semester to read this alistapart.com/article/writ... with the hope that the idea sinks in for all the writing they ever go on to do
a chapter from a writing studies expert debunking this very thing! linking the podcast version of it for fun and convenience:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
57: Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants, by Phill Michael Alexander
Podcast Episode · Bad Ideas about Writing · 03/04/2022 · 15m
podcasts.apple.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
a chapter from a writing studies expert debunking this very thing! linking the podcast version of it for fun and convenience:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
Roman Mars is not quite Morgan Freeman, and who knows if podcasts can go viral anymore these days, but :
99percentinvisible.org/constitution/
99percentinvisible.org/constitution/
The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Constitution - 99% Invisible
In President Trump’s first term,Roman Mars treated the U.S. Constitution like a warm blanket, something to turn to for comfort as Trump stomped all over the country’s laws and centuries of precedence....
99percentinvisible.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Roman Mars is not quite Morgan Freeman, and who knows if podcasts can go viral anymore these days, but :
99percentinvisible.org/constitution/
99percentinvisible.org/constitution/
sounds mmmmmmmm. maybe with a bit of crusty bread? yeah
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
sounds mmmmmmmm. maybe with a bit of crusty bread? yeah
here is where it all began! doi.org/10.1145/3472...
Is There a Transcript? | Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
here is where it all began! doi.org/10.1145/3472...
ah I see! yeah, too much banter and not enough structure is a flaw for some (most?) podcasts that do things that way
at least transcripts are skimmable though
at least transcripts are skimmable though
October 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ah I see! yeah, too much banter and not enough structure is a flaw for some (most?) podcasts that do things that way
at least transcripts are skimmable though
at least transcripts are skimmable though
do you need to...? and why not? (asking that second q mainly as a researcher of podcast transcripts)
October 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
do you need to...? and why not? (asking that second q mainly as a researcher of podcast transcripts)
I have this semi-idle dream of someday just sending postcards from my piling collection to every address in my old address book, even the ones I'm sure I should've updated but haven't. maybe I'll plan it for next year on world postcard day
October 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I have this semi-idle dream of someday just sending postcards from my piling collection to every address in my old address book, even the ones I'm sure I should've updated but haven't. maybe I'll plan it for next year on world postcard day
news that does not matter to any other human in the world: I'm up to April now
September 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
news that does not matter to any other human in the world: I'm up to April now