Teryx.

teryx.

Last night I spoke at a conference on sustainable peace. Small turnout, but we had a nice conversation about pedagogy in emerging fields that suffer from the theory-to-practice gap. Key point about that gap– researchers find complexity very uncomfortable and usually avoid it, focusing more on subjects and problems where there is lots of data. Practitioners love complexity and are comfortable with it and are used to not having lots of data, especially of the data needed to best solve complex problems. And that is the nature of the gap: scholars cluster at high information/ low complexity, and practitioners at hi complexity/ low information, and how to do you connect the two, how do you create someone who’s comfortable in both settings?

Tonight after training at the MMA gym I’m going to eat a steak and then listen to podcasts on secular humanism while I write my dissertation until I fall asleep. I wish it were snowing still– writing with flurries outside and cup of hot tea is one of the best times possible, I’m pretty sure.

On the morrow.