04.Jan.2010 New Year’s Resolution
1/3 of my New Year’s Resolution is to read more. I did pretty good in 2009 (after I spent a few days reflecting what books I actually read), here’s at least 90% of the actual books I read: Hitchhiker’s Series (Douglas Adams): funny, zany, totally unbelievable, sometimes laugh out loud funny, but mostly just fun. [...]
04.Dec.2009 Quote – Gary Vaynerchuk
It’s never a bad time to start a business unless you’re starting a mediocre business. Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It (available for free from Dailylit.com)
16.Oct.2009 Swearing is Caring
You might not have ever heard of Gary Vaynerchuk, but he’s one bad ass entrepreneur. Proprietor of Wine Library and WineLibrary TV, and a new wine-focused social network (corkd.com). Not to mention this new book (Crush It). In the world of online entrepreneurs, he’s been hitting the speaking circuit and getting plenty of press on [...]
01.Oct.2009 Under a rock, the size of the universe
Apparently I’ve been missing out. Until yesterday I hadn’t been aware of Carl Sagan and his books, shows and contributions to science (I blame my local PBS station). I’m going to catch up on all the great reading content Carl has out there (starting with The Demon-Haunted World). but I’ve also been watching a bunch [...]
28.Sep.2009 Student Load vs. Teacher Quality
The debate continues. As a master’s student at UVM my thesis focused on Vermont’s historical trends in educations which contributed to and set the stage for our high ranking public school system (at the time, according to certain resources). I placed particular emphasis on the fact that Vermont’s long standing traditions and demographic arrangements had contributed [...]
02.Sep.2009 Ben Franklin sucked at advertising
For being a pioneer in printed news papers (creating one of the first papers in PA and infamously publishing Poor Richard’s Almanac), Ben Franklin, in all modern measurements, sucked at ad-copy. I might go so far as to say that he would have been canned by any current magazine, newspaper or even blog for the [...]
19.Aug.2009 Fred Rogers on Copyright
From Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture, Mr. Rogers talking about how he believed VCRs would have positive technological impacts on his audience and show: Fred Rogers, aka “Mr. Rogers,” for example, had testified in that case that he wanted people to feel free to tape Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. “Some public stations, as well as commercial stations, [...]
17.Aug.2009 Franklin's 13
From Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, freely available at your local library or from Dailylit.com. These were the main tenets that he lived his life by, adapted from the Presbyterian church (though he claims not to have been a serious, church going man). I propos’d to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, [...]
13.Aug.2009 So long…
…And thanks for all the fish, M*&%erf@#$er. If you aren’t a nerd like me who’s read all of the Hitchhiker’s Guide series you might not fully understand this. If that’s the case, beware: dolphins are very dangerous when armed.
28.Jul.2009 Education costs trending towards zero
There’s a lot of talk about how the cost of education is decreasing year over year because of the advances in technology. Free courses, free text books, free content available from the most prestigious universities in the world, all online, accessible all the time to anyone anywhere. Josh Catone of Mashable wrote a quick article [...]
