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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Jan. 29, 2010
Outliers
In Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, he discusses in one chapter the difference that ethnic backgrounds make in plane crashes. He contrasts cultures that allow relatively free communication between authority and subordinates versus cultures with a strong sense of hierarchy. Pilots avoid … Continue reading
Jan. 26, 2010
Two HUGE Updates to Sonlight.com
Situation 1:You go visit one of Sonlight's Core Packages. You select your program and start looking through the X number of items included in that package. Interested in one of the books, you click the title... Before today you would … Continue reading
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Jan. 25, 2010
Sonlight Rewards Badge
My mom asked me to create a link for her to the Sonlight Rewards Program. Great idea! I created the graphic, added it to my blog, sent her the code and thought, 'If my mom wants this for her blog, … Continue reading
Jan. 19, 2010
Why I Went to High School
Yesterday I linked to a fantastic article on popularity. In his article, Paul Graham argues--among other things--that high school has no real purpose; the stated goal of "educating" is little more than a farce except in the instance of the … Continue reading
Jan. 18, 2010
Peers and Popularity
The trees had dropped their leaves. The sun was pale through the window. He sat hunched in his desk looking at his trigonometry textbook. Actually, he was looking at the slip of paper on his text: Ballot it read. "Please … Continue reading
Jan. 14, 2010
Pausing at the Start of a New Year
As we enter the New Year, I must pause and reflect on the sobering realities many in our Sonlight community have faced in the last year. I am deeply saddened by the recent death of two Sonlighters whom many of … Continue reading
Jan. 12, 2010
Sonlight and Sunlight
I've heard that Colorado gets around 300 days of sun every year. And that's nice. Today it's supposedly 60° out there, but the breeze was cool while we ate at the picnic tables. Still, that's a lot warmer than it's … Continue reading