Contemplating things.
I’ve been thinking a lot about education, from how we teach our youth to how we teach ourselves. My favorite way to learn is by doing. By getting my hands dirty, performing experiments, testing to see what happens, and making note (maybe only mentally) of what I learn, I seem to both retain better, and…
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Lets forget about crowd sourcing, twitch streaming, and things like Patreon for a time. How did the idea of a patron of the arts come to be? Why did it exist? And should we try to bring it back? patron (n.) “a lord-master, a protector,” c. 1300, from Old French patron “patron, protector, patron saint”…
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Okay, I work for WordPress.com, full disclosure, I have a lot of blogs. Some I use for testing, some for fun, some for ramblings that I never share, the list goes on for the reasons I have so many. But I’ve been starting to wonder why. Why do I have blogs for all these different…
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Not too long ago I finished Michael Pollan’s How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. And it was awesome. I don’t have a better word for it. It really was great, fun to read, full of interesting info and stories. It was just…
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. ~ Ernest Hemingway Why share this quote? Why did it have an impact on me? The last words hit me…
Read MoreSimply thinking about money made participants less likely to ask for help.
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