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Hack Education 
Writing Here and Elsewhere 
- HEWN, No. 253 via tinyletter.com
- The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com
- The Tech “Regrets” Industry on audreywatters.com
The Contrafabulists 
- The Week in Predictions on predictions.contrafabulists.com
Spencer Fellowship 
- Week 4 of classes
- The guest author in my book writing class was Lucette Lagnado
- I added new dataset to data.hackeducation.com, so I can track the Bezos Family Foundation’s “ed-tech network”
- I’ve been admitted into a data journalism workshop that’ll happen next weekend
Other Projects 
- I pitched a story about a conference I’m attending this spring (and the pitch was accepted)
- I talked to Adam Baidawi of the NYT re: a new private school with strong Silicon Valley roots
- I had a meeting with Sharon Lurye re: her Master’s project at the J-School
Reading 
- I read The Big Test and The End of Average
- I started reading Surveillance Valley
Family and Friends 
- Kin’s brother and sister-in-law were here through Monday
- We had lunch yesterday with Damian and Amy, who were down from Maine en route to India
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