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Raw Milk Safer than Salad 13 Jun 2013 | 08:15 pm
A little background Some of you know that when we our second daughter Raya was around 5 or 6 months old, I started “homebrewing” her formula based on a recipe for raw cow’s milk based baby formula I f...
Digitally Isolated. 15 Feb 2013 | 03:00 am
I keep thinking about being digitally isolated. What is “digital isolation?” In a nutshell: today we are more connected to anyone/everyone than at any point in history yet (paradoxically) we feel eve...
Why I Didn’t (And Don’t) Vote 8 Nov 2012 | 12:10 am
Folks who know me know I don’t vote. Many roll their eyes at this decision. Others awkwardly skirt around it preferring to avoid asking why I don’t vote (I don’t usually go into why unless prompted). ...
What’s Lost in Outsourcing your Life? 10 Oct 2012 | 12:36 am
David D. Friedman had a thought-provoking post over over the weekend — Middlemen, Specialization and Birthday Parties. Therein he talks about how specialization and division of labor have allowed for ...
Is “Follow your passion” Good Advice? Probably not. 2 Oct 2012 | 02:27 am
The problem isn’t that we’re all aimlessly trying to find our passion, it’s the misguided expectations that: we know what we want (or think will make us happy) that there’s an easy, quick way to get i...
Weight Gain from Forced Overeating has Limits 7 Jun 2012 | 12:02 am
It seems the only things I can find time to blog on these days are posts from Peter of Hyperlipid. I’ve whittled down the number of blogs I follow that cover nutrition — just not enough time in a day ...
Compensating for Broken Fat Cells 15 Apr 2012 | 11:43 pm
When it comes to reading about the metabolic effects of eating a high fat diet (With low fat and low carbohydrate, in turn), I turn to Peter’s wonderful Hyperlipid. I was catching up on Reader the oth...
Gamers Solve Problem that Dogged Researchers for Decades 20 Sep 2011 | 04:24 am
“Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of ‘Second Life’ or ‘Dungeons and Dragons’: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for ...
Failure to Move is the State of Paralysis 26 Aug 2011 | 05:21 am
I keep returning to the idea of action (doing) over inaction (thinking). I also have been likening doing vs. thinking as similar to producing vs. consuming. The problem with the consumption/producti...
How We Get Good at Something 11 Aug 2011 | 02:24 am
It takes mundane, often boring, always repetitive practice. And often a whole lot of it. We learn by doing and not by thinking. Watch this short creative take about Ira Glass’s advice on storytelling...
