Official Transitioner

I just finished reading Zen To Done (if you’d like a copy, I can forward you the PDF.) I found many parts of it particularly interesting- some if it I already do (task lists, emails out of inbox, working quickly to process, collecting information in a notebook), but there are two traits I’ll definitely look [...]

For those who watched my live tweets, Christmas is somewhat of an extravaganza here. It was nice being home for Christmas, in a break of sorts. Tomorrow, I’ll for Bonaire for a completely different but equally wonderful break! =)

Well, not really. Anyway, there’s been a lot I’ve meant to write and haven’t gotten a chance (particularly given that I couldn’t upload photos due to misplacing my camera cable. However, now I have an SD card reader, and an Eye-Fi card, so I shouldn’t ever need the cable again, and will continue to regularly [...]

hello all, here I sit, bravely waiting for the arrival of my passport (at least I didn’t have to go to Chicago), but alas, it is interfering with my Christmas shopping. For your entertainment pleasure, I’ve located three things that make me very happy: These are wesome tutorials: http://www.photoshoplady.com/the-100-most-popular-photoshop-tutorials-2008/ Bacon appears again: http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/bacon-dispenser.jpg Then, http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/83153959_d0918599a6.jpg?v=0

So, as you may have read in books.ellenchisa.com, I recently read Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”… one of the most interesting pieces of this was definitely one particular quote that summed up a lot of what has happened lately. The sense of entitlement he has been taught is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern [...]

So recently I’ve gotten into the habit of using Twitter (bad habit, I know, pretentious). But really, everyone else I knew was using it, and I got sucked in.  Greg’s final comparch project was making cute fake twitter bots (see www.waspeo.com).  So, he used these bots to also crawl everyone’s individual network. For your viewing [...]

So, something LOA-house has been heavily focusing on of late is personality tests.  First of all, it’s interesting (Chandra Little, Olin ’07 did an interesting project on on Myers-Briggs tests during MetaOlin).  Secondly, it helps us figure out team dynamics a bit better, so we can more understand each others patterns of working and interacting.  [...]

The ones I read are bolded. It’s taken from Tim Smith’s live journal… but I was too lazy to keep track of anything other than what I’ve read.  The underlines and asterisks don’t mean anything… Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment Catch-22 One Hundred Years of Solitude Wuthering Heights The Silmarillion [...]

So, one of the things that I’ve gotten of lately is “what we try to teach children” because I’ve been spending SO much time with people who educate children.  Particularly those who are making the transition to being real members of society – i.e. middle schoolers. Somethings I’ve taken out of this: Random Acts of [...]