It’s early January, which means everyone is making promises to the calendar. Some of them are thoughtful. Some of them are guilt in a trench coat. And most of them get buried somewhere around mid-February, right next to that half-used planner you swore you’d “really stick with this year.” That’s why I think it's important to draw a clear distinction between two things we treat like the same thing: Goals and resolutions. Which, as per the focus of this article - aren’t synonyms. And if you...

January is when we all pretend the calendar has magical powers. New year. New goals. New priorities. New “we’re doing things differently this time.” And then by January 12, you’re staring at the same inbox, the same meetings, the same bottlenecks…just with a fresh Google Doc. I hate to break it to you, but a new year is not a reset. It’s a continuation. Which is not depressing. It’s just true. And if we start from what’s true, we can actually do something useful with the new year instead of...

The first time I watched students and teachers try to use a new AI tool in real time, it didn’t look like “the future.” It looked like… frustration. The tool wasn’t broken. It was doing what it was designed to do. But what surprised me was how fast people abandoned the attempt to make it work. Not 20 minutes. Not 2 minutes. Twenty seconds. If a prompt didn’t work, they rewrote it once. It didn’t work again, so they closed the tab and said, “Eh. I don’t have time for this. Let’s just go back...