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October 17, 2012
Outlining Books Faster, Revisited
October 17, 2012A year ago I wanted a better way to outline books for review purposes, and wrote about The Fast...
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September 16, 2011
Outlining Books Faster
September 16, 2011There are a LOT of books I have been meaning to review or otherwise deconstruct into happy nuggets of...
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June 6, 2011
The Great Push
June 6, 2011SUMMARY: The hard, demoralizing work that goes into doing necessary chores drains me of energy faster than I can...
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September 14, 2010
Hung Up on Purpose
September 14, 2010Thinking about Posco’s comment about the usefulness of knowing origin in tool use, when abstraction is ultimately more powerful....
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September 9, 2010
Primitive Notions
September 9, 2010From Wikipedia’s article on Axioms: A lesson learned by mathematics in the last 150 years is that it is...
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January 14, 2010
Virtual Terrain Maps IV: Inspired Guessing
January 14, 2010SUMMARY: I write about the experience of unintentional, high-quality collaboration leading to insights of how I know more than...
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February 8, 2009
Outlining Books for Learning
February 8, 2009My learning process is one of mining words for insights that I can structure into a form that my...
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January 19, 2009
Realistically High Expectations, Part I
January 19, 2009Last week I made the connection between how I “drive” myself poorly with how unskilled drivers run terrible laps...
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April 10, 2008
Mission Improbable Gospel Music 2: Chiseling out a Chord Progression
April 10, 2008As I wrote a few days ago, I had decided that I would try to write a Gospel song...
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April 9, 2008
Mission Improbable: Making Some Gospel Music
April 9, 2008It’s been a pretty good week so far, thanks to some recent insights I’ve had about my so-called “work...
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January 3, 2008
Any C# Game Developers North of Boston?
January 3, 2008I’ve been slugging it out with C# and Managed DirectX for the past couple of months, and haven’t made...
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November 19, 2007
One Laptop Per Child, and One for ME!
November 19, 2007One of my colleagues out in San Francisco recently told me me about the One Laptop Per Child organization’s...