This is the blog of Curtis Bright, a mathematician and computer scientist from Canada. Since September 2025, I am an associate professor of teaching at the University of Waterloo in the School of Computer Science. Between 2020 and 2025, I was an assistant professor at the University of Windsor. I also hold an adjunct professorship at Windsor and Carleton.

My primary interests are mathematics and computers but outside of that I am fascinated by the process of learning, to the point that I engage in new activities so I can examine myself improving. In that vein, I would like to posit the following conjecture:

You become great at something if and only if you spend a lot of time doing it.¹

I call this a self-improvement blog because it’s primarily a way for me to practice, and hence improve, my writing skill.

According to Myers–Briggs my personality type is INTP, the “thinker” archetype. In practice this means I have strong analytical skills but can’t get my head out of the clouds. I do put effort into grounding myself, and that is the other main reason for this blog.