I’m at the Harvard Faculty Club after attending a meeting of the Learning Innovations Labs alumni (where I was a Visiting Scholar in 2002). More about the fascinating meeting later. Meanwhile, rather than bothering local friends and colleagues with last-minute visits, I’ve decided to spend the day soaking up some smart with a sort of “spa day for the mind.” After a leisurely breakfast in the conservatory, I intend to be hanging out in the reading room with about a millenium of accumulated academic knowledge represented by the other occupants, dropping in on some of the museums, browsing the bookstores and generally hanging out in the square and strolling the 300 year old sidewalks.
I noticed, when I first visited Cambridge years ago that I was noticeably smarter just being here. Maybe I can even make some critical progress on my long-rumored sense-making white paper.
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