From the monthly archives:

January 2012

The end of asking simple questions

by Dirk January 30, 2012

At least once a week, in a conversation or email, something is mentioned that I’ve never heard of. A name, a fact, a movement, a programming language…something that I am not familiar with. Still, today, as someone whose coming of age preceded the ubiquity of the Internet, my instinct is to immediately ask, in the [...]

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Humanity must begin experimenting

by Dirk January 19, 2012

We’ve gotten very comfortable with the “hard” sciences being so neat and tidy. Most of the scientific “truths” we accept today can be “proven” on the back of past theories and previously defended hypotheses. In the long now of humanity this is, most certainly, a luxury. And it has served to stifle potential progress in [...]

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On winning and losing

by Dirk January 3, 2012

One of the best lessons I learned from my father was competitive humility. Dad was a tremendous racquetball player. For years he won the competitive “A” league at our Jewish Community Center, beating good players in their 20s when he was in his 40s and even 50s. He regularly played his friend Ted during this [...]

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Elena 1.11

by Dirk January 1, 2012

The last two months have been full for Elena: experiencing her second Thanksgiving and Christmas, traveling up to Toledo and having visits from her grandmother and brother. She also continues to amaze us with the little things she does… * Just after Thanksgiving we accidentally discovered that Elena knows pretty much every word in all [...]

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