Audrey Watters

Cross-posted to Hack Education Week in and week out, there are a litany of stories that, if I were paying attention to education technology, would prompt me to say “I told you so.” Why look, just in the last few days: coding bootcamps, pretty shady; Udemy, very shady. Google Notebook...

Yesterday was gorgeous, with temperatures reaching the 60s. It's cooler today, and a stormfront is moving in. "False spring," I've heard several people call it. You think that winter is over, but it's not. The darkness and gloom and cold will continue. Feels apt as there have been moments when...

I am in a really dark place right now. I haven't run since Thursday, and I am going to hold off from doing so until the pain in my knee is gone. I was hoping that that would be tomorrow. Based on how I feel today, it won't be. I...

This week was a tough one, as the recovery from my collision is taking much longer than I’d like. I dialed my training way, way back -- which is frustrating as hell as things were going so well. I skipped my speed work on Tuesday. I skipped the gym on...

Just when things are going great… I mean, I have been feeling so strong physically. I'm just a few weeks into my training block for my April half marathon, but everything's felt good. I'm making progress in the gym too, which is even better as in the past I've found...

Yesterday was my third 10K race ever. It was my second NYRR race of the year — the first in-person — as I work towards completing the "9+1" that'll qualify me for the 2025 NYC Marathon. It was my third race in Central Park; my second time with this particular...

A very busy week. A very busy Monday, so a bulleted list to describe said week: Reading: Finished A Pocketful of Happiness; continuing Filterworld; finished A Feast for Starving Stone; started Every Man for Himself and God Against All; started Be Useful Cooking: White chili with chicken and quinoa and...

The weather -- the first substantial snowfall in New York City in over 700 days -- made it a weird week. The snowfall and the bitterly, bitterly cold that followed. And the wind, my god. I remember in school in England one of the teachers said that Americans had invented...

On Thursday, I was working at my desk when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a large black shape fly then fall. A giant raptor diving after some poor pigeon? Perhaps a piece of patio equipment blown off the neighboring apartment’s terrace -- it has been incredibly...

I'm a big To Do list kind of person. I add all sorts of tasks — big and small — to my list (I use a piece of software called Things). I glance at how many items are on it in the morning and sort of gauge how my day...