Audrey Watters

Teaching Machines 1 April came and went, and the draft is not done. I’ve requested an extension. I reckon I lost about two month’s of work with moving, so I’ll have the manuscript done by the end of May. I’ve set up a pretty strict writing schedule for the remaining...

Teaching Machines Well, it’s 31 March, and the draft of Teaching Machines isn’t complete. I’m trying not to freak out – I mean, we’re finally settled here in Seattle, and there’s no excuse to not focus on the writing. So hopefully I can finish it up quickly. Other Writing I...

Teaching Machines It’s fine dot gif Other Writing HEWN, No. 310 via substack.com Working I ran a bunch of errands this week: I got my library card. I had a bra fitting (for the first time in my life, and holy shit, I have been wearing the wrong bra size)....

Teaching Machines I’m getting back into the swing of things – slowly. That April 1 deadline is looming. Other Writing HEWN, No. 309 via substack.com Working I attended a virtual meeting about privacy, technology, and higher ed (and it was great to see so many faces of folks I miss...

Teaching Machines I am making more progress on the book draft. The exciting update this week, I suppose, is that I received a copy of (some of) B. F. Skinner’s FBI file. He talks about this in his autobiography – the fact that the FBI could not account for his...

Teaching Machines I’m back at work on the book draft, which is due less than a month from now. I’m not confident I’ll make the deadline, but I’m not sure I won’t either. I have a couple more chunks to write, but then a lot of editing and polishing to...

Teaching Machines Once again, I have no updates on the book progress. Well, that’s not quite true. I gave a talk this week at Austin Peay State University, and what I said will probably become the introduction to Teaching Machines. (And that’s why, contrary to my usual practice, I did...

Teaching Machines Another week where I’m going to skip giving an update on my word count. I did get some words written, but this week has mostly been about moving and packing. Next week doesn’t look to be much more productive either, as I’m traveling and speaking and then unpacking...

It wasn’t a good week for writing. But we did sign a lease on an apartment, and while there is no furniture here other than a bed and two bar stools, we have a roof over our heads in a new city. This new city is experiencing the worst winter...

Teaching Machines Although we’re still unsettled in Seattle – we sign a lease on an apartment on Tuesday – I did manage to get some writing done this week. Word count: 10,077. Total to date: 70,333. (I’ve set a goal to have 125,000 written by the end of February and...