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• 08-Feb-2024

  
  Golf Book vs. Golf Clubs Al, in his latest post (Kudos Al!): Learn by doing. You’re not going to climb a mountain just by reading about Everest. I think I was 12 years old and my uncle – also called “Joe Crawford” by the way. posed this hypothetical: Imagine two people on two deserted islands. To one you give the...

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• 14-Jan-2015
  Tom Hanks, I love you! “…but I hope the idea sticks, because more veterans, from Iraq and Afghanistan this time, as well as another generation of mothers, single parents and workers who have been out of the job market, need lower obstacles between now and the next chapter of their lives.” — Tom Hanks I came out of high school...

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• 04-Mar-2014
  Debt and Education / Chomsky / Shirky From Chomsky: How America’s Great University System Is Getting Destroyed Well how do you indoctrinate the young? There are a number of ways. One way is to burden them with hopelessly heavy tuition debt. Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the...

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