Just wrapping up Neil Peart’s Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road. It is quite a read, and not really a motorcycling book, so much as one about being human. For the author to share his journey, well, it is very generous of him.
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Sharing your Passion
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
What seems to be universally fun is spending time with people who are sharing their passion. Teachers do this, so do really good presenters, friends, and leaders. It is the experience of people sharing with you the song that their heart sings.
On Computing
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Computing is very poorly understood. Case in point here is the litmus test I would argue to you that: In North America you can pull any 18 year old randomly off the street and ask them to do something and it would go like this: 1. Can you build a basic bridge between a 3ft [...]
Some Thoughts on Mathematics
Thursday, November 15, 2012
R. L. E. Schwarzenberger, The Language of Geometry, in A Mathematical Spectrum Miscellany, Applied Probability Trust, 2000, p. 112: My own attitude, which I share with many of my colleagues, is simply that mathematics is a language. Like English, or Latin, or Chinese, there are certain concepts for which mathematics is particularly well suited: it [...]
Connecting With People
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Four trips. In my life I’ve been lucky enough to have four great trips. Three around the U.S.A. and one around all of Europe. At the time I thought the whole point was to see things. Well, you see things, and maybe you feel good about them, too. What you remember though are the people. [...]
The Construction of Programs
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. -– Donald Knuth
The Goal of a Teacher
Sunday, July 29, 2012
To create an environment where learning happens. – Dr. George F. Corliss
The right way to look at computers
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
I object to doing things that computers can do. –Olin Shivers
Sayre’s law
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Sayre’s law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: “In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.” (via wikipedia)
Instead of Saying “I Don’t Have Time,” Say “It’s Not a Priority”
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Instead of Saying “I Don’t Have Time,” Say “It’s Not a Priority” – Laura Vanderkam