Practice

Recently I came across a fantastic blog by Dan Luu. It's one of those things where, once I found it I immediately spent several hours that night reading nearly every post. But the post I want to talk about has the wonderful title of 95%-ile isn'

New affectation

It started with a grocery list, on one of those long notepads made for the purpose. I set out to secure some food and sundry items from two stores, so I folded the long sheet in half and wrote my notes accordingly: one side this store; this side the other.

That little black book

For the past few weeks I’ve been attempting to discover the name of a book I once held in my hands, was interested in, but failed to purchase. I know it concerns mathematics. I know it has a black cover. I know I saw it on a table at

Just drawing some clouds

There are some things about me in my forties that I absolutely would not have expected of myself in previous decades. Getting a good deal of joy from drawing clouds and the daily weather on our refrigerator whiteboard ranks high among them. Each day I get up, feed and let

Tea Time

We've already established that I'm old. Pursuant to my embracing of that fact I've started getting into tea lately. This started out of necessity, as my stomach can no longer take 8 hours of constant coffee consumption, but has grown into something I really

Schooling: Random Thoughts

As host parents to a foreign exchange student this year, my wife and I are being exposed to an aspect of American life we had thought was solidly in our rearviews. Seeing it again through a new lens, I have some thoughts about schooling and high school life here in

Dask

It's been awhile since I've written about anything technical, mostly because I've been busy and not really investigating anything new. But recently, and largely on whim, I've checked out a course on Dask. This is a framework for doing parallel, scalable data

Mission Statement

If someone were to ask you what your personal mission statement is what would your reaction be? Would you laugh at them? Slowly back away? Would you actually have an answer? This topic came up between my wife and I the other evening (you talk about strange things when you&

And then you’re dead . . .

As a runner I tend to perk my ears up when I hear of other runners in the news. Yesterday I learned of a thirty-nine year old Eden Prairie, Minnesota, man who went out for his morning run and never came back. As of this writing, no foul play is

+1 for Gratitude

Your gratitude post really resonated with me. Looking back through my posts here, I think most of them are basically this–looking for things that are working, even if they're small. I remember reading recently (I can't remember where now) that gratitude is a habit or