When YouTube creators scale to millions, information drifts from education into entertainment. The business model reveals what’s really happening.
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My friend Mike and I rode the Engelberg-Trübsee gondola in February 2015. It was one of those overcast days where the fog sits in the valley like a blanket, and you can’t see more than a few hundred meters in front of the gondola. We got on at the base in Engelberg, rode up through
A friend of mine lent me a book a few months ago at Angel Falls, our usual coffee spot in Akron. It’s called Taekwondo: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Warrior by Doug Cook. He’s into martial arts, and I think he thought I’d appreciate the philosophical side of it. He was right, but maybe not
The first time I saw someone use a terminal to control a remote computer, I didn’t understand what I was watching. I was a student at the University of Akron. An IT support guy sat down, opened a window, and typed something. Then he was somewhere else. He was executing commands on a different machine,
The data on AI and suicide doesn’t support the panic — and the panic itself may be costing lives. Twelve documented AI-linked deaths against 49,000 annual suicides. The ratio matters.
I was in Brussels for FOSDEM and discovered that Europeans have hardcore bathroom capitalism — tap-to-pay turnstiles to use the toilet. Meanwhile, in “capitalist” America, bathrooms are free. The labels don’t match reality.
Recently, a friend shared a passage which struck him, from the book, The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It’s about being stuck, and you can read it here. I only made it 20% into this passage when knew that I’ve felt this feeling a thousand times. As a long time amateur auto mechanic, I’ve felt
One time, I’d had a few drinks and I was sitting with a group of acquaintances and they asked if I believed in God. I tried not to answer, but they kept pushing me. Without me answering, they detected wavering and assumed the worst. They asked “what would you have to see to to believe!?!?”
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”http://test.educatedconfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screenshot-from-2016-12-31-19-26-13-1.png” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Walden by Henry David Thoreau I remembered being forced to read this in high school. I tried to tackle this again in 2016 but honestly, I got
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[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Background So, there is some debate in developer circles about whether programming is an art, a science, or both. Recently, I have heard the word Code Craftsman and even Code Artist used by folks in the blogosphere. On the one hand, there is little argument that written code can be
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