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My name is Kevin Lin, and I’m looking forward to working with you. While my home page highlights the products of my work, it doesn’t explain how I work. I want to share with you how I work so that we can have the best collaborative relationship possible. Continue reading to learn more about me, and I hope you’ll do the same and share more about what I need to know to work effectively with you too.
Education is not just about learning skills, but finding your way of moving through the world. I am a Berkeley-trained computer scientist and a self-taught scholar of teaching and learning, so I value self-directed individual achievement. I see scholarly work as fundamentally creative work even when requirements are clear. I prefer setting ambitious goals even if mistakes occur along the way.
I expect each of us to find intrinsic value in our work. Your work is your art: it is the mark you leave behind on the world, and I want to work with people who are serious about their art. Critical conversations about our art are key to improving ourselves, so I think candid feedback that constructively challenges us to do better is the kindest way to show care.
While I think human existence is bleak, meaningless, and out of balance with the natural world, I find for precisely those reasons beauty in life and living. I am rarely ever angry or disappointed in individual people, but rather in the systems that produce them. Instead of focusing on what is good or bad about a situation, I tend to focus on actions we can take to change social conditions.
Writing this is one way that I name the forces that shape how I move through the world. I believe reflexivity is a key practice for living in accordance with one’s values, and I respect people who think critically about how they think. I trust people who consistently take deliberate action to improve themselves, honor commitments to others, and go out of their way to provide help.