I’m delighted to share this piece with you, published today in Campus Technology online. Mary Grush has done several of these Q&A pieces with me, and I’m always very grateful for the opportunity. Mary has a particular way of asking questions that are invitational. She listens carefully to what I have to say, then asks follow-on questions that start to shape and focus my responses, just the way a good teacher can begin to elicit work from the student that’s sharper and more interesting the longer the questions continue. The result is better than anything I would have accomplished without that leading.

When Mary and I discussed the article, we remembered that it had been about ten years since our first conversation. Where has that time gone? In this case, for me it’s gone into a marvelously reciprocal relationship with a very gifted editor. Working with Mary has been one of the great delights of my post-2003 career–the career that took me by surprise. Perhaps the career that’s not yet quite done.

Thank you, Mary.