At one point in my career, I stood at crossroads of academia pondering what direction I should take. Do I pursue a scholarly life as a computer scientist? Or should I venture into the corporate world of business, money, and endless meetings? I seriously considered both options, and ultimately I decided to get a Master […]
Drone-Friendly Mailboxes
For hundreds of years, people have delivered mail in boxes or slots facing the street where letter carriers could side-load the mail. This has worked well for all these years because letter carriers have been delivering mail from the ground. But with drone technology, it is now possible to deliver mail from the air. This […]
Meet the 2020 Heroes of Baseball
The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series Champions in 2020. This weird, shortened season is now over. That means it’s time for me to pick five new Heroes of Baseball. As I’ve done every year for many years now, I pored over the stats and selected five new players to join the Heroes of Baseball. […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume V
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Universal Login
Jack Michaels had the day off. He put on his jacket and walked out the door at a little past eight in the morning to run a few errands. His first stop was the hardware store, where he had to buy some paint and caulk to do some work on his bathroom. “Good morning, James,” […]
1,000 Ideas and a 10-Year Plan
Since I was about thirteen years old, I kept a running list of good ideas. I’m forty right now, so that’s almost thirty years of ideas. At its height, the list had over a thousand ideas. After some honing and pruning, it now stands at 647. Now, all of these ideas were “good” ideas at […]