When Watching Students Becomes the Lesson
Schools are watching students more than ever. A case for transparency, human review, and records students can see and correct.
A personal blog on Planet Hoto
Hoto's Dissident Blog
Essays on politics, war, and how to live, written against the grain. These are my opinions, and I sign my name to them.
The rest of Planet Hoto is calm, practical mental health help. This corner is where I argue. Read it, disagree with it, send it to someone who'll hate it.
Newest first
Posts
Is Toxic Happiness Making Us Miserable?
A seven-minute audio episode asking whether the pressure to always be happy is making us miserable.
Why Modern Happiness Is Broken
A nine-minute audio episode: happiness is not joy all the time, it is being content with your life, however hard it gets.
What I'm Learning About Third Parties
Why third parties lose, what they win anyway, and the reforms already changing the rules. A sourced explainer.
A Rest From Happiness
Being happy is good. Being expected to be happy all the time is work, and work needs breaks.
A Most Agreeable War
On the pride of the men who start wars and the prejudice of the people asked to cheer them on.
The first posts are on their way.
How I write here
Ground rules
- Opinion, labelled as opinion. Every post is my view. Where I state facts, I link the source at the bottom.
- Corrections in the open. If I get a fact wrong, the fix goes at the top of the post with the date, not a quiet edit.
- No ads in the middle of an argument. Nothing on these pages tracks you.