Category: miscellaneous

In a classic example of podcast virality (or is it network effect?), I added the Tim Ferriss podcast to my pod catcher a few months back based on a recommendation on another podcast I listen to.  I have really enjoyed the shows I have listened to (especially the conversation with Matt Mullenweg).  The most recent episode mostly…

The great experiment in home schooling home educating autodidaction is coming to and end.  Qualitatively, I think it has been a success.  We more or less fell into the “unschooling” approach the year went on and it has paid dividends in the form of greater personal responsibility and renewed curiosity that is at the root…

Hadn’t heard of this before, but it fits in nicely with some of the concepts I am trying to wrap my head around in Godel, Escher and Bach (one of the books I am reading right now – although it has been on “pause” for a few weeks), specifically that meaning emerges from what Hofstadter…

I listened to the Tim Ferriss interview of Matt Mullenweg on my way up and back to Detroit last week.  I wasn’t a big 4 hour work week fan when it first came out, but I have to say his podcast has convinced me to add it to my Amazon wish list (it’s currently 838…

Not sure what corner, what cross streets or even what city, but a corner was turned  nonetheless. My retirement savings balance is now higher than the only debt I carry, our mortgage. The weird thing is, that matters way less to me than I thought it would.

I hadn’t read any of when I saw this, but have since read through The Last Question and We Can Get Them For You Wholesale.  They were both great reads so sharing the whole list from Johnny Lists. 1. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell — The story of a big game hunter finding himself stranded on an…

Listened to a Tim Ferriss podcast on the ride up to Detroit this week where he interviewed Amanda (F*ing) Plamer who just so happens to be married to Neil Gaiman, author of this and some other great quotes: “I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach…

The few readers I have may have noticed that I have fallen off the blogging wagon again.  My goal to post every day turned into every week and now I’m back to having no goal.  There are two underlying reasons for this “failure.” This: And this: The first is a picture of a bust of…

I had the pleasure of international air travel this past week, so among other things that meant lots of time for reading.  The selection for this past trip was “A Clockwork Universe” by Edward Dolnick.  The book includes a number of vert interesting anecdotes, which all add up to a number of different points. The…