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Flight vs. Invisibility
A couple weekends ago, I spent the morning listening to a near-perfect This American Life segment put together by the incomparable John Hodgman (It runs for the first 14 minutes of this episode)....
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Giving the Tiger Mother a Chance
I’m currently reading Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Given the amount of attention that it has drawn in the press, most of you are probably aware of the book. For those of you who aren’t,...
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Tiger Mother 2
Flag Waving Day Today is a national holiday in Korea, in commemoration of the Korean Declaration of Independence, which was officially signed, read and distributed on March 1, 1919. The action was in...
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Hat Tournament in Seoul
Yesterday I went out and played Ultimate for the first time since coming to South Korea. It did very little to dissuade me from the notion that Ultimate players are generally the best people on Earth...
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You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
I think this is my favorite phrase out of all the pocket wisdom I encountered during my brief foray into the world of finance. Back then, the charm was thoroughly wrung from it by incessant...
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Sarah Kay’s Performance Poetry
I don’t have much to say about this, except that it’s awesome and you should watch it if you have a spare 20 minutes and could use a little joy and wonder in your day.
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A Cultural Time Machine
Sometimes, in Korea, I feel like I’ve stepped into a time machine more than that I’ve come to another country. Obviously, there’s the language barrier, but you get used to that more than you might...
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Teaching, As A Learning Curve
I can’t recall now where I first heard it said that a driver’s instincts aren’t fully developed until their mid-20’s. Most likely I was told my father as he was gripping the “holy s—” bar above the...
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Throwness
In last week’s post about long learning curves, I only got to part of what I was thinking about. That post and this one originally came from reflecting on my experiences in learning to be a teacher –...
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Some Very Incomplete Thoughts on Comedy
There was no blog post last weekend because I was at a frisbee tournament out on Jeju island, off the southern coast of Korea. Left the house at five on Saturday morning, and returned at midnight on...
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