Topics about how people think and learn (especially children), and various tricks and techniques for teaching — not just school learning, but *life* learning.
I needed a new side-project, something to keep me occupied when I just couldn’t work on Project X any longer for the day. So on the spur of the moment, I decided to learn Python. (Why Python? I’ve heard good things about it. I can use it as a scripting language, which is something that …
This is the third follow-up to my my previous entry on self-knowledge and motivation. The entire series can be found here. I’ve finally figured out the problem that I’ve been having with motivation for working on Project X. It’s really pretty simple, and I don’t know why I didn’t realize it before. I’ve taken some …
This is the second follow-up to my previous entry on self-knowledge and motivation. In the last article I talked about habit, and how I was able to establish some useful habits that let me overcome my urge to sleep all the time. Near the end, I noted that I wasn’t able to establish a habit …
This is the first of several planned follow-ups to my previous entry on self-knowledge. As mentioned there, in the last year or so I haven’t had much reason to get out of bed in the morning. Literally — I was in bed until nearly noon most days, despite having gone to bed between midnight and …
Interesting.
For the past several years, I’ve been trying to design and write a very ambitious programming project (referred to here as Project X). But even though I find the project fascinating and intellectually stimulating, recently I’ve found that I’ve had less and less drive to actually work on it. Last week, I saw another Ford …
Fascinating stuff.
A fascinating article. I didn’t realize that humans could do this sort of thing.
The human mind is fascinating, for many reasons. Here’s just one example. Until a few weeks ago, I thought that my purpose in life was eliminating problems. It went hand-in-hand with the idea of kaizen (as mentioned earlier on this blog). It’s not something I consciously thought about; it simply developed over the years, because …
Whenever I see unproven fear-based reports like this one, I’m reminded of all the fear-inducing reports in my childhood. Comic books were warping our fragile little minds, so when I was six, my mother threw away a huge collection of Bugs Bunny comic books that I’d been given by our neighbors before I could read …