Quarterbacks, Teachers, and Financiers
adminWhat they have in common? Skills that cannot be easily measured. This is the point of a very long article by Malcolm Gladwell at the New Yorker: Most Likely to…
Life is what happens…
While you are waiting to be successful. Watch this short clip of Alan Watts, a 1960's "guru" of eastern religions, recorded with visuals made and produced by the makers of…
Recumbent fixed, again
About 7 minutes from my house on my bike is a repair shop with an old man in it. He should be retired, and could probably sell his shop for…
Saving money by treating sewage
Over at Freakonomics an interview with Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, about treating human waste, shows that for every dollar spent on sewage treatment, seven dollars in health…
The Future of the Educational Marketplace
I was reading Stephen Downes' article on the Future of Online Learning, and ran into a paragraph that hit home more than the rest, about the marketplace for course content.…