Category: miscellaneous
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Parallels between the response to Islamic terrorism and the election
All analogies break down if you push them far enough. But they are still useful as a lens to understand things. So don’t try to push this one too far, but see if you can learn something from it. It seems to me that significant portions of the American population are engaging in discourse that…
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The day after
Well this is about to get interesting. There are a lot of bleary eyes and shocked expressions around me this morning. I can’t say I’ve seen any overt celebration in person (my Facebook feed is another story). Perhaps there are some that are secretly celebrating for their own reasons or perhaps it’s just the crowd…
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Illuminating the idea of striving without clinging
I suppose it was inevitable as I made an attempt to get more serious about meditaton this year that I would get exposed to some Buddhist ideas. I haven’t sought them out (if anything I have tried to find a purly secular meditation approach), but as I said was probably impossible to avoid them entirely.…
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Maybe school isn't such a great network builder after all
I made a brief argument in my last post about higher education, that it used to be good at three things: building a social network, access to unique knowledge and provinding certification. I went on to point out that the first two had already been relplaced with things that do or soon will do a…
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Could this pop the education bubble?
I found myself in a interesting discussion about a month ago with another guy about my age and two current college students. We talked about a wide array of topics but at some point along the way we got on to the subject of their experiences as current college students. I made mention of the…
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GoPro video and commentary from this weekend's local IPDA match
Keeping with the approach I started with the MI Match video, I added in some quick commentary, mostly for me to keep track of what I did well and where I need to improve. Fun match, great squads and good weather. Can’ ask for much more!
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90 Second Book Review: Self Reliance
This book doesn’t need an intro, so I’ll make it short: Self Reliance was one of several essays written by American Transcendentalist movement. Emerson is also sort of a Socrates to Henry David Thoreau’s Plato. You can read it online for free, but the specific version I am reviewing here was put together by the Domino Project. It…
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Without moral support the very strength of a state becomes it's inherent danger.
A few weeks ago I got home from an annual long weekend in southern Kentucky and immediately caught whatever illness that my wife and daughter had been dealing with in while I was camping. It wasn’t any big deal really, but one night I woke up at around 2 in the morning with a raging…
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Syntopical podcast listening: why it's so hard to have a real conversation these days
Despite the cooler fall weather, I’ve still had to mow quite a bit which means podcast listening time. It’s not all bad though since of late I mostly work from home, which has cut down on my commute related podcast listening time, so about the only time I get to catch up on the 30 or…