How much time should you spend playing Candy Crush? Or SimCity? Or Tetris? or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes? If you think these are just time wasters, you’re wrong. In a really interesting TED Talk and similarly interesting interview on Tim Ferriss’s podcast, Jane McGonigal (creator of SuperBetter) has discussed how gaming per se improves brain […]
In Defense of Candy Crush
How much time should you spend playing Candy Crush? Or SimCity? Or Tetris? or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes? If you think these are just time wasters, you’re wrong. In a really interesting TED Talk and similarly interesting interview on Tim Ferriss’s podcast, Jane McGonigal (creator of SuperBetter) has discussed how gaming per se improves brain […]
In Defense of Candy Crush
How much time should you spend playing Candy Crush? Or SimCity? Or Tetris? or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes? If you think these are just time wasters, you’re wrong. In a really interesting TED Talk and similarly interesting interview on Tim Ferriss’s podcast, Jane McGonigal (creator of SuperBetter) has discussed how gaming per se improves brain […]
In Defense of Candy Crush
How much time should you spend playing Candy Crush? Or SimCity? Or Tetris? or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes? If you think these are just time wasters, you’re wrong. In a really interesting TED Talk and similarly interesting interview on Tim Ferriss’s podcast, Jane McGonigal (creator of SuperBetter) has discussed how gaming per se improves brain […]
5 Things I’m Not Going to Do Today
A few days before the beginning of the Fall semester, Jason Womack posted a prompt on Facebook that popped up just as I was about to close it. He asked, “What five things are you NOT going to do today?” Here were my responses: Respond to that thing that just came across my Facebook feed. Someone […]
Arnold Kling, “Three Languages of Politics”
It looks like most political commentators are just talking past one another. Why? Arnold Kling hazards a guess, arguing that people don’t understand one another because they have fundamentally different visions of how the world works. According to Kling, conservatives see the world as a conflict between civilization and barbarism, liberals see it as a […]
Subscribe And Save
We use Amazon Subscribe and Save for a bunch of different things. It’s nice to know that there’s going to be a shipment of paper towels, coffee, almonds, and other stuff pretty regularly. This reduces the amount of stuff we have to worry about. Here’s what we subscribe to:
Emma Maersk: World’s Largest Cargo Ship
Here’s an interesting documentary on the Emma Maersk, an ultra-large container ship. It’s worth 45 minutes of your time–as you watch, consider just how many people–and how many jurisdictions–are involved in what you see. In the video, Emma Maersk is carrying over 10,000 containers of cargo. Could the captain list a complete inventory of what’s on […]
Arnold Kling, “Three Languages of Politics”
It looks like most political commentators are just talking past one another. Why? Arnold Kling hazards a guess, arguing that people don’t understand one another because they have fundamentally different visions of how the world works. According to Kling, conservatives see the world as a conflict between civilization and barbarism, liberals see it as a […]
Arnold Kling, “Three Languages of Politics”
It looks like most political commentators are just talking past one another. Why? Arnold Kling hazards a guess, arguing that people don’t understand one another because they have fundamentally different visions of how the world works. According to Kling, conservatives see the world as a conflict between civilization and barbarism, liberals see it as a […]