These are two really interesting takes on taking a sabbatical.
My wife and I often joke that we will never truly retire because who we are and what we do for income are so intertwined. I guess that probably goes for sabbaticals too.
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My wife writes about our trip to Milwaukee (and college visit to Lake Forest)
The Technium: Everything I Know about Self-Publishing
I’m often asked for advice about how to go about publishing today, with all its options, so here is everything I have learned about publishing and self-publishing so far.
If you’re a writer or aspire to be one, this is important. Worth reading and bookmarking.
Daring Fireball: Woz: ‘I Am the Happiest Person Ever’
Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.
What we believe in.
The Daily Driver – The Homebound Symphony
The internet is a dark realm which I do not visit except upon compulsion. My old chair is Hobbiton; the internet is Minas Morgul. I would not go there except upon compulsion.
I love reading how folks, especially writers, work.
The HTML Hobbyist Mission:
– Show how quick, easy, and affordable it has become to get a website up and running.
– Show how enjoyable building a simple hand-coded artisanal HTML website can be.
– Provide instructions and guidance on how others could build and upload a similar hobbyist website to share with the community.
What we believe in.
The table of contents (and the index) | Seth’s Blog
We’re at risk of becoming all index.
A similar theme to the previous stated elegantly.
Writing is Thinking | Jamie Thingelstad
Sometimes folks ask me if I use AI to help write the Weekly Thing and I tell them something just like this. No. I do not. Because the Weekly Thing is part of how I continue to learn myself. If I were to delegate that I would miss my own goal of learning.
Yep. This.
And I hope and pray that such ideas are at the heart of the discussions my daughter’s school, is having this summer around policy and procedures concerning the explosion of student A.I. use.
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
This is a great story.
Also, my daughter is friends with and goes to school with a similar such wunderkind (also homeschooled until 10th grade) whose interest is in Applied Mathematics. I can’t wait to see how these kids change the world.