I am very much a self-taught learner. My preferred learning style is to sit down with the subject at hand, a relevant task, a stack of reference manuals, and plenty of time to just hack my way through until I figure it out. I learn best through the process of trial and error, but I [...]
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Blogging Style
I got sucked in. I don’t usually post results like these….
Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful
You’ve got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog.
Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights.
A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time.
You blog [...]
Just a Single Data Point
It’s always a little bit frightening (read ‘scary’, ‘nerve-wracking’) to discover you are being read, and then that you are being taken at least somewhat seriously (but then again, isn’t that exactly part of why we write?). Frankly, I find this fact to be both humbling and gratifying at the same time — humbling in that my [...]
Let It… Snow?
With the weather outside the way it is, one would think it was Christmas vacation this week, rather than Thanksgiving. It is beautiful out there, though, and it was a pleasure to walk in it this morning. Snow is definitely preferable at 28 degrees to rain at 36 degrees.
All this snow, however, reminded me of a [...]
My Way of Thinking Does Not Make a Very Good Prediction Tool
The older I get and the more experience I receive in this world, the more I find that I cannot adequately or consistently predict the behavior of other people. My own viewpoint, my own knowledge, and my own experience that I have gleaned over the years are far too limited and far too narrow in [...]