The last few months I’ve found myself reflecting on many of the perspectives I’ve taken and decisions I’ve made… and realized I’m usually wrong. As a bit of a stubborn, self-righteous and arrogant person, it can be painful to admit I’m wrong. I also find admitting I’m wrong to be an incredibly powerful tool. …
TheGravi-TeeShirt scientifically proven to make you more attractive WhyProve it Get more attractive I’m very picky about my clothing and generally get turned off by having brands printed all over myself. This results in me, mostly wearing solid-colored T-shirts or shirts from events I’ve attended. It would be great if clothing could somehow promote an…
Warning: just for full disclosure, this blog post is essentially a 2,500 word advertisement for an amazing book I finished reading called “The Teenage Liberation Handbook: how to quit school and get a real life and education.” If you have the utmost of faith in my ability to choose books, you can skip all this…
I got a message from someone via a Tumblr account I had abandoned long ago asking for some advice on what to do during their current manic episode. Since my last blog post advising someone about mental health issues got such a good response, I thought I’d post this one too.: I have bipolar…
I don’t tend to think of myself as someone who should be giving parents advice. Mainly because I don’t have children. And I’m also not any kind of authority on mental health. But I recently replied to a parent’s post in a private Facebook group whose daughter had just been hospitalized for the 10th time after voices…
Sometimes people ask me how I ended up down the career-path I’ve taken of being an entrepreneur. I can tell you almost exactly when it happened – when it clicked – that this is “who I am” or “who I want to be.” I was a senior in college studying biomedical engineering and was…
Sh*t, p*ss, f*ck, c*nt, c*cks*cker, m*th*rf*cker, and t*ts…… Sorry to leave you hanging, but to read the rest of this fantastic post you’ll have to visit a delicious new site I created called Entrepreneurs Anonymous: an anonymous peer support group for entrepreneurs. To visit the site and connect with other entrepreneurs, follow this link:…
I haven’t written in a while and thought it would be a fun exercise to walk through an explanation of why. It could be called “writer’s block”, but, to me, that suggests I don’t have anything to write about or that the words just aren’t “flowing.” In actuality, there is much more to it,…
How to Build a Website Watch me teach my nephew Practical Programming. 1. What is a website made of? (Practical Programming) March 15, 2016 In this tutorial, we will start very simple and look at the basic building blocks of a website. This is the perfect starting place if you’ve never tried building websites before.…
I was fortunate to be asked by School Video News to write an article telling the story of how our peer-to-peer teaching community, Open Source High, came to be. The article can be found HERE.