September 2011
8 posts
The Optimist
An old one, but one of my all-time faves.
There are twin boys of five or six. Mom was worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities — one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist — their parents took them to a psychiatrist.
First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with...
It's Not Gender Warfare...It's Math.
annaholmes:
(A shorter version of this piece appears in today’s Washington Post. Photo of Google executive and engineer Marisa Mayer via. Headline via.)
Let’s say I was designing a new piece of software to make my life as a writer a little easier. First, I’d program it count how many characters I’d typed out and in what amount of time, in order to document my productivity on any given day....
Tereza wants you to join Honestly Now
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9/11 Reflections
Yesterday we carved out some time to reflect as a family about 9/11. Of course that really meant me and Richard. The kids are too young to get it. We were very lucky. So many were not. Anyway here’s what I wrote…
9/11 changed everything, it seemed, but it was a really weird inflection point for me personally as well. I was fairly newly married and still doing consulting but...
“As long as we embrace (or even accept) standardized testing, fear of science,...”
– Seth Godin (via fred-wilson) 