Don't Spend All Your Time on Productivity
I have always liked the simplicity of lists, especially bullet point lists. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been keeping some type of to-do list and it never fails, they would always end up the same way – too long and unmanageable. I had skimmed through a few books on time management and organization, but it wasn’t until I read Getting Things Done, by David Allen for the first time in 2001, that my...
Read moreApple Classroom of Tomorrow
In 1984, my elementary school was one of just a few in the nation that was selected to participate in a program called the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow, a.k.a ACOT. ACOT was an experimental program initiated by Apple to put an Apple //e computer on every desk in elementary classrooms, with one of the first being in Blue Earth, Minnesota. We even started the school year two weeks earlier than everyone else so we could learn keyboarding. ...
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After taking my fair share of programming classes in high school and college, this seemed like an appropriate title for my first blog post. If you are not familiar with what I’m referring too, the “Hello World” program is usually the first program written in a computer programming class. It is intended to be very basic way to get people used to the syntax of the programming language and simply displays the words, “Hello World” on...
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