Develop a working ethics for the harder edges of teaching with reach — attribution, accuracy, the parasocial trap, teaching what you don't fully know, pricing, regional and cultural responsibility, and the AI inflection — before the moments arrive that force them. Ethics in public teaching is the postmortem you write before the incident. Most ethics is reactive — cleanup after the mistake. The discipline here is runbooks: positions on pricing, attribution, and accuracy written before they're needed, so when the moment comes — the reader misled, the framing stolen, the region demanding a position — you execute the runbook instead of ad-libbing under load. The runbook is allowed to evolve. What isn't allowed is having no runbook and calling the incident unforeseeable.
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The ethical questions in teaching are not abstract until they are. The first thirty thousand readers of your work are statistical strangers — names you don't know, behaviors you d…
The ethical questions in teaching only become real when you have an audience. A blog with three readers has near-zero ethical surface area; a blog with thirty thousand has more th…
Approach: Essential
Approach: Essential
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1. The public correction. Pick one piece of your published teaching from 12+ months ago; identify factual or framing errors you'd correct now; publish the correction or update, li…
6 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.