Confidence is key. Also elusive.
The more I work with people—students and adults—the more convinced I've become that confidence is the most important quality a person can possess. Confidence is often the difference between performing…
Museum of Endangered Sounds
The Museum of Endangered Sounds is a website dedicated to preserving the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronic equipment. Dot matrix printers. Dial-up internet. The Windows…
Backronyms!
I learned a new word this week thanks to one of my favorite newsletters, Numlock News: Backronym Definition: An acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out…
Climate change is real. Democrats knew this 30 years ago.
Just for the record: Climate change is accepted as a dangerous reality by all reasonable people. Democrats and Republicans alike. In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released…
Love your job.
An 18-year-old hacker from Oxford has been sentenced to indefinite confinement after a series of astounding cybercrimes. While on bail for hacking Nvidia and the phone company, the hacker’s laptop…
Smoking going away
A student asked me, "Why would anyone start smoking? It just means you'll have fewer friends." It's a good point. Though smokers and nonsmokers don't always segregate themselves from one…
Sucker-punched
I was punched in the face - twice - in a dream last night. Both times, I argued that I had been sucker-punched, but in both cases, my combatants disagreed.…
A pie for a baby
Years ago, a principal was running my school, and he was a monster. A narcissist of the highest order. We had no affection for each other, and we made it…
Toilet for the win
Years ago, on the way to Florida, my best friend and I played the “Best of All-Time” game, in which competitors must argue for the best of all time in…
Cinemetic quandaries
When Darth Vader is chasing Luke Skywalker down the trench of the Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope, he notes that “the Force is strong with this one.”…
