YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Tag: future

As Mr. Burns would say, “exxxxxxcccccccccellent”

As Mr. Burns from the Simpson’s would say, “Exxxxxccccccellent”. Check out this great New York times article. I’ll keep quiet and curate the best stuff for you. In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before [...]

Bettr@ as the classroom of the future?

It’s funny that I just posted about the NYTimes being one of the few newspapers I read online. Especially when they have great content like this. Laptop? Check. Student Playlist? Check. Classroom of the Future? Check. …The program, conducted in a converted library, consists mainly of students working individually or in small groups on laptop [...]

Subvocalization could be awesome

This is completely unrelated to bettr@, but I was looking through my notebook for stuff from the WFS conference and remember listening to a discussion about subvocalization and intercepting signals from the brain before they hit your vocal cords. This technology could be pretty awesome in due time. Some pretty amazing possibilities here, including never [...]

The real reason to work on startups: fix the world (and hat tip to Disqus)

I just switched to Disqus commenting (I’m a huge fan of Disqus. Not that I get a ton of comments on here, but I haven’t been posting a ton in the past several months, which I fully intend on changing. For reals. In part I was reinvigorated to communicate the dire situation that our world [...]