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View ArticleReality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
At my suggestion, my book group has been reading Jane McGonigal’s Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. I have to admit that at first glance, the title...
View ArticleFeynman on Work and Play
While Richard Feynman, the renowned Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist, was teaching at Cornell University in the 1940’s, he hit a low spot: “At Cornell, I’d work on preparing my courses, and...
View ArticleMy Favorite Fortune Cookie
I got this in a fortune cookie a couple of years ago. Still not sure how to tell whether it has come true. … Continue reading →
View ArticleKelli Anderson: The Hidden Talents of Everyday Things
Kelli Anderson is a designer who likes to find the hidden talents of everyday things. Her TED talk is titled “Disruptive Wonder for a Change.” “As we go through our everyday lives, visual and...
View ArticleA Bad Joke Walks Into a Bar
As far as I know, most of the following atrocious walks-into-a-bar jokes originated with me, and the rest with my beloved wife, Cyndie. So you can credit us or blame us, as you wish. Prepare to groan....
View Article“I’ve said a lot of things”
“I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things. I know what I’m doing and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people … Continue reading →
View ArticleIf I’d Only Known: The Commencement Speech I Wish I’d Heard
The following piece was written by Jennifer Graham and published in the Boston Globe in 2010. Link to the original Ask any college graduate to remember who spoke at his commencement, and you might get...
View ArticleSupernatural Calendar, 2016
Cyndie, my beloved partner of 15 years and counting, gives me a wall calendar every year for Christmas to hang in my office. They’re always great, and they’re always different. But her 2016 calendar is...
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