Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Perhaps I have read enough materials of various kinds and lived a flow-like life enough that the encouraging insights of Flow: The psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi appeal to me only transiently, much as a McDonald's french fry would. I get the same sense of mild unhealthiness in consuming either.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
A 25-page pdf article by a mathematician on maths education and the joy of maths, which he compares to an art, but I feel a comparison to science would be more accurate. HT: Gabriel. (where does he get all these interesting things?)
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
A quotable quote from D: "oh well....brilliance is in coming up with an explanation of why things don't work..intelligence is in making them work :-) "
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My work computer desktop has never looked clean before now. Usually it would look like the above.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
This is what I would have said when I was 17, except that I was never a valedictorian and I was as yet too unformed to make those points proudly. =) I thought I was the only one and only whispered them in the corners of my mind. But this is yet another one of those things about school that people should know. HT: Gabriel.
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010
The long and short of why I detest pages that have Flash intros, or worse, use Flash entirely. From The Oatmeal. HT: Gabriel.
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