This is the home for the ideas I'm fascinated with. You'll find notes on what I'm learning, posts on my favorite ideas, and the back story of my work.
The skills you learn in school and college are only abstractly related to real life. If you zoom out and focus on the actual skills you are learning from age five to twenty-one, it is not math, …
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People talk about how a view of the mountains, or a view of the ocean is grounding. The typical abstraction is that it is something so massive, imposing, and powerful that it makes your problems feel …
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Every morning at 7:30 AM, as I pulled my car out of my apartment building I would see people digging through the garbage in the dumpsters. I would look at then and wonder; how can I find my life so …
School ruins readers. By the time you make it through high school and college, you go from a curious explorer of stories and ideas to someone who associates books with boredom and stress. The …
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People in the U.S. complain about the two party system. Wall Street runs the country because there are only two parties. They say a multi-party system would be better. People in Canada complain …
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Two days ago I took friends to see Lake Louise. It is a spectacular glacial lake and one of the most popular tourist attractions in Canada. When you arrive at the lake, you get the feeling you are …
