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I am going to make a suggestion. Try speaking with the head of a math department at a local community college or at the nearest college. Explain what your goals are and ask for gui…

I have developed my own technique that has worked well for my children and myself. I ask myself after reading a chapter, doing homework or learning new information the following qu…

I have found that I can focus intensely by wearing headphones while working on my laptop. I listen to non lyric music at https://somafm.com/dronezone/ . I have found that this atte…

In the early 1990's I worked for a communications company and I recall saying that the cell phone was a game changer and that it would be used for more things than the current comp…

Mastery in Software engineering is the ability to conceive and design a program or app in ones mind and then build it and have it work flawlessly. In my experience when a company w…

This would be like teaching slaves to read in the pre-civil war South. It would allow any child to rise above the worker bee status. Not something wanted by todays powerful busines…

The answer is to put them into situations where they have to think on their own. Also, lots of board games, word games, and role playing games. Always ask the child why something h…

I picked up a copy of Dune at the Harvard Coop as a teenager and I was amazed. I learned to develop an inner dialog of reasoning. It also started me thinking in terms of systems an…

The best way I know to balance is by scheduling your time. Maybe keeping a log. When I read I usually read two or three books at a time with one book being very difficult and one b…

Most likely no one is going to like this post. My father was a physicist and he had a large library of books. Growing up all of these books were over my head but I tried reading al…