Making decisions is challenging and risky. Why not let someone more intelligent with more information have that responsibility, even if that ‘someone’ is implemented in software.Read more…
Science Reader Question: “I Could Show You the Ways of The Force.”
Does the existence of a mentoring opportunity create an obligation? Or, to put it slightly differently, can we rely on potential mentees’ desire for mentoring to tell us when we need to start? Here’s where I think The Force Awakens is illustrative. Read more…
Science Corner: “Nobody Worries about Upsetting a Droid”
Do you have experience, on either end, with cloning-as-mentoring or apprenticeship-as-mentoring?Read more…
Science Corner: “Fear is the path to the dark side.”
Why and when should we start mentoring and investing in those younger or at a less advanced place than we are academically? Read more…
Science Corner: But Which Are You–the Master or the Apprentice?
Why and when should we start mentoring and investing in those younger or at a less advanced place than we are academically?Read more…