Category: miscellaneous
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90 second book review: Red Queen
Red Queen, by Matt Ridley, is another book that made it on my “to read” list somehow that I can’t quite remember, and came to be on my “to read” pile by way of Half Price Books. Since I can’t remember how I became aware of it, I also can’t remember what interested me about…
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90 second book review: Tribe
Tribe, by Sebastian Junger, explores the ties that bind small groups together though the lens of men that go to fight and die for their country. Tribe was an impulse buy for me. I listened to an interview that Junger did on the Tim Ferriss podcast while mowing, pulled my iPhone from my pocket, did…
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90 Second Book Review: Stumbling on Happiness
I must admit that I don’t quite recall where I first heard about the subject of this quick review, but as has happened many times, that intergalactic portal that sorts through the thousands of books I’d like to read and picks the right one at the right time to send my way did its job…
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Match video and commentary from the Michigan State IDPA Match
I traveled to Brooklyn, MI this past weekend to particiapte in my first sanctioned / State level match (truth be told, I was already in the area for work, but that was just a lucky coincidence). It was the Michigan State match held at the Brooklyn Sportsmans Club. It was a great facility and a…
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Match video from this weekend's IDPA match
Haven’t been posting a lot here (epic summer in progress…coming to an end shortly). But I was able to grab some match footage from this weekend’s IDPA match at Lloyd’s WMA in Critteden, KY. It wasn’t my best match, but I still learned a few things: Always have a stage plan. This couldn’t come at…
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Who wants to open a non-school school with me in Northern Kentucky?
About a month ago I attended a presentation by Ken Danford on Liberated Learners / North Star Teens. Since then, I can’t get an idea out of my head: I’d love to be part of starting one of these in the Northern Kentucky / Greater Cincinnati area. To be completely transparent, my motivations are three-fold: I…
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Free Will Revisited
I wrote about my thoughts on Sam Harris’ book Free Will in a post as few months back. It troubled me at the time that his basic argument seemed to be that since we can’t know all option and control all inputs / our reactions them that it means we can’t control anything. In the…
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Will we learn this time?
School may be out for summer in many parts of the country, but there are stil plenty of lessons to be learned from this year’s political morass. We’ve learned that the two party system is not actually a feature of our government. We’ve learned that the two parties are actually private entities and can do whatever…
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What we can learn about freedom from a 19th century Russian author?
UPDATE: for those of you that clicked on the link and thought “TL;DR” (does anyone actually think in acronyms?), there is a dramatic reading that you can listen to. I spent the morning coffee time re-reading the “Grand Inquisitor” chapter in The Brothers Karamazov”. While many see it as a screed against the Catholic Church…