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Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and [...]

The emphasis of my first day at PDC was Agile Development Methodologies & Tools. Shockingly, there was a huge emphasis on running the complete process of whatever methodology (be it Scrum, Extreme Programming, etc.) As naive as it may sound, it had never occurred to me to sit down, read and memorize a book on [...]

Oddly Specific is a new blog being launched by the Cheezburger Network (you know, the people who brought you the dreadful cats, and the delightful FailBlog) today.  I’m actually really excited about this particular launch: Who doesn’t love hilarious signs?  There aren’t that many so far, but definitely worth a look. It’s run entirely on [...]

Saturday from noon until midnight I spent twelve hours in a room that was about 80million (or 80) degrees with Greg, Zack, and Erik working on puzzles. I highly recommend the event if your school runs it next year. An example of a very easy puzzle (sorry, no pictures of us on my camera- we [...]

Drink for Christina’s 21st birthday. I have a new favorite cocktail: Dark and Stormy. It’s ginger beer and dark rum. And delicious. I also had a huckleberry collins, and drank some of Christina’s “death in the afternoon” which was champagne and absinthe. Buffalo Wild Wings.  Brad and I decided we were driving to Connecticut to [...]

I’m all ready to go with testing out some Android development thanks to Olin’s Mobile Hackathon this weekend. I didn’t get TOO far, but here’s a button: Eventually I got to having a textbox that one could type in to add things.  I need to figure out more things to make my ideal to do [...]

Today was one of the more exciting days of being back at Olin.  A couple months ago I read this blog post in Scott Berkun’s blog: http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/help-needed-bostonnyc-book-tour-nov-09/. I’ve been a big fan of Scott’s work since I first read Myths of Innovation about a year ago, and I basically live off of “Making Things Happen.”  [...]

I had the pleasure of going to MIT last night to see Nick Pitera.  Nick Pitera is this guy: That’s right: he can sing both parts to a Whole New World. He can sing tons of other things too, but my favorites are definitely his Disney pieces. He also managed to put on a hilarious [...]

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we we haven’t devised a single means of using it. True true measure of any society [...]