In the middle of writing a final project report from my old company, I read an interesting article by Walter Kirn on multi-tasking. According to the author, who cites actual science as evidence, we are all becoming progressively dumber due to doing two or three things at once. While talking on the cell phone, we…
…. and I mean poor not in the Biblical sense of poor in spirit but in the Financial Reserve sense of not having money in your checking account. There are so many kinds of software now that it is hard to choose what you absolutely have to have. First on my list of software the…
In the movie, Hook, there is a very sad part where Tinkerbelle turns herself into human-size because she is in love with Peter Pan, and she says, “It was the very biggest wish I’ve ever wished and I wished it just for me.” It is sad because she doesn’t get her wish, because Peter is…
Yes, this is a little known fact, but I discovered quadratic equations, back in the 1970s when I was in high school. Well, no, I was not the first person to discover them, but it happened like this… My math teacher was a conscientious objector (the Vietnam War was going on) and his alternative service…
My daughter, Julia, is named after a French mathematician who discovered the Julia group of fractals. When trying to come up with a name, I had tried everything from the Internet to the Magic Eightball. Still, nothing fit. I was out of town on a business trip – this is how I started most sentences…
Our first on-line course by the Julia Institute will be offered on January 14. There are so many thousand other details that I would like to add. I would like to do more testing to make sure every little thing works perfectly, that the mp3 files and movie files will work with every computer in…
I admit it. I am having a mid-life crisis. Almost to the half a century mark, it is time to decide what is there that is worth spending the remaining half (or less) of my life doing. Making life better That was the vision for the company I co-founded years ago and just left. I…