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My Bathtub is Nonlinear
I’m working on raising my kids as systems thinkers. I’ve been meaning to share some of our adventures here for some time, so here’s a first installment, from quite a while back. I decided to ignore the...
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If your kids are boring, you’re doing it wrong
The other day I ran across a blog post (undeserving of a link, though there is a certain voyeuristic fascination to be had in reading it) that described children as boring little wretches, unsuited to...
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Dumb and Dumber
Not to be outdone by Utah, South Dakota has passed its own climate resolution. They raise the ante – where Utah cherry-picked twelve years of data, South Dakotans are happy with only 8. Even better,...
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Would you like fries with that?
Education is a mess, and well-motivated policy changes are making it worse. I was just reading this and this, and the juices got flowing, so my wife and I brainstormed this picture: Click to enlarge...
View ArticleOut with the bad, in with the good
A while back Obama jumped on the fire-bad-teachers bandwagon: “You’ve got to have radical change, and radical change is something that’s in the interest of students,” he said. “We’ve got to be able to...
View ArticleKon-Tiki & the STEM workforce
I don’t know if Thor Heyerdahl had Polynesian origins or Rapa Nui right, but he did nail the stovepiping of thinking in organizations: “And there’s another thing,” I went on. “Yes,” said he. “Your way...
View ArticleWhy learn calculus?
A young friend asked, why bother learning calculus, other than to get into college? The answer is that calculus holds the keys to the secrets of the universe. If you don’t at least have an intuition...
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