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An Evil Too Great To Name
30-Nov-12In Praise of Reinventing the Wheel
24-Nov-12“Reinventing the wheel” is a mortal sin in programming. But some wheels need to be reinvented.
Pencils from yesterday
09-Nov-12Some quick pencils from yesterday. On reflection I like the eye and the sock puppet dragons the best.
Medicare Reform
06-Nov-12Medicare is simultaneously two things — first, an “insurance program” which we use to fund health care for the elderly; second, a price schedule and system of subsidies for medical education. Â We don’t do ourselves any favors in combining the two; it makes substantive reform all the more difficult.
First World Problem
04-Nov-12I just slid my finger up the margin of a real physical paper book and then for a second I experienced a sense of annoyance that it was not scrolling.
David Allen @ Claremont Colleges TEDx
02-Nov-12The Claremont Colleges had a TEDx? The Claremont Colleges had a TEDx and David Allen came? The Claremont Colleges had a TEDx, David Allen came, and I didn’t find out about it until afterwards? Dammit.
On Frustration
21-Oct-12It can be surprising to learn that frustration, which often leads to anger, can be easily dispelled. Frustration consists of two parts: first, a perception of how the world IS; and second, a belief that it SHOULD BE otherwise. Sometimes you can change your perception, and sometimes you can change the world — but you […]
Shopping Lists and the ‘No X’ item
10-Oct-12I do most of the shopping since Danielle works business hours. The primary shopping list is on a whiteboard that’s stuck onto the fridge with magnets. This is convenient for writing down groceries as soon as we use up the last one or discover that we need something. I keep another shopping list in my […]
Procrastination
30-Aug-12If you are actively procrastinating and you find yourself doing X instead of Y, then you’re already partway to the cure. Use X as a reward for having completed some Y. Example: I will reward myself with 5 minutes of filing after I do 25 minutes of bookkeeping. (Yes, some days I would rather do […]
Politics and Tribes
26-Apr-12Summarizing my current view of politcs as a primarily tribal activity, which generates much heat and little light, and has very little to do with how we run our country/state/city.