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It’s the greatest cliche in the entire self-improvement industry. Follow your dreams. But it is a cliche because it is advice that has been true for many generations. Sometimes we disregard cliche advice because it feels outdated somehow. We think there must be an updated version somewhere that works twice as well. But no. Don’t […]

I have several essays from my college years sitting around gathering dust. Instead of trashing them, I am editing them and putting them online. The following is one such essay. I wrote this one for my personal homepage around 1997 (updated version shown here). *** Let’s start with the basics. This short tutorial on web […]

I have 1,033 books on my Amazon.com wishlist. I add new books to my list almost daily. I don’t have the speed-reading skills of a superhero. How can I ever get through over a thousand books? The answer is curation. If you can’t read every book, read only the best of the bunch. Curation isn’t […]

I have to balance taking care of three little kids with trying to earn a full-time income.  I only have time to watch a handful of movies a year, so I have to be picky.  I’ve decided to use the IMDB top 250 movies of all time to help me choose which movies I should […]

I have several essays from my college years sitting around gathering dust. Instead of trashing them, I am editing them and putting them online. The following is one such essay. I wrote this one for a Human-Computer Interaction class around the year 2000. ***   Ever since people began using computers for private use, they […]