Category Archives: Blog Posts
This section focuses on my blogs posts exclusively (as opposed to a post from my previous works).
Management Practices Must Adapt to System Type It’s Operating Under
One of the most annoying arguments I must endure is listening to people complain that X management style or practices is a scam or failure because it doesn’t apply inside a context it wasn’t supposed to operate. When I try to explain there’s different types of systems a business department may find itself in, and […]
Educational Coding Websites
A friend recommended codewars.com , hackerrank.com and cordiality.com I’ll give it a shot.
An Atheists Promise
Josh had a vague memory of his mother, he seems to recall her in the kitchen baking something, telling him not to make a mess as he licked the spoon she used to stir the mix for a chocolate cake. The details are not clear to him. He remembers her reading to him before bed […]
Baking Calculator
A friend of mine going to culinary school asked me if I could make a calculator for one of his recipes. The goal was that based on the amount of bread used the rest of the ingredients would auto-populate. I just worked one out in a few minutes, this is what it looks like: […]
Thoughts on Promoting Lecture
I’ve written in the past on games attempting to encourage reading on one of my articles entitled “Creating a Generation of Winners” The article goes over a project from game developer Jesse Schell and its work called Lexica. The interesting thing about his game is that he isn’t trying to replace reading books with game […]
Thoughts on Gamification Part 1
Note: The following writings is a flow of consciousness, not intended as a research document and thus I’ve kept much of the references out. Most of these can be found on my other writings. You can tell that the industry is filled with idiots and charlatans just by the way they explain their conclusions. […]
Quick Points on Epigenetics
I recently heard a woman argue that “science” has proven that thoughts can change DNA, and they used this as a premise for new age thinking and the belief that wishful thinking has power over the physical world. It was obvious she didn’t even know how to structure an argument properly, and I don’t suffer […]
Tongue Position
Interesting short video, claims that the healthy position for keeping your tongue is resting in palate, as if you’ll make the “mmmmm” sound, and this causes huge heath consequences, including changing the position of your teeth.
“Dear God, Please Give Me a Thousand Days like This!”
Federico was the son of a rich Venetian merchant in the early 1500’s. Proud and arrogant, with the sense of entitlement in a two year old who will shout “mine” with an authoritarian finger to everything he lays his eyes on. Growing bored of Venice, and wanting to explore the world while he was […]