Category: About Education
The following is one of several rants I have on the topic of computer programming as a life skill vs a vocational skill. I love swimming upstream on this topic. An article in Quartz at http://qz.com/340551 ...
Susan Wingate is an esteemed author of “Christian Fantasy” and other fiction derivatives. I met her briefly when she was speaking at the 2014 Whidbey Island Writers Conference. She impressed me there as someone who has...
In Hacker News this week I found two articles, right next to each other, that shared a theme. I’ll call this theme “I’m not as smart as I seem” or maybe “A crisis in confidence and I...
More on the “Technology 1, Humans 0” theme. Nice tie in to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Persig) ‘…Famously, in his book Phaedrus, Plato decried that more widely spread use of writing as...
“Maybe the generalization isn’t that you have to grow up in the sticks and then move to the city, but rather than you have to go to a very different kind of place if you want...