If you came here looking for wisdom, you will probably be disappointed. It seems like I have spent my entire life in some purgatory of forced learning, and I have not yet learned to love the learning process.
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Welcome Home, Mom
My mother Loretta Barrett raised children, built a career in counseling high school students, traveled the world, and wrote her autobiography. Then she went back home to Galveston, Texas.
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This is a book of hope for humanity. But more than just hope, Jeff Hawkins has a plan–a plan for all humanity, and beyond. Each of its three sections is largely independent, and yet in the final two, short chapters Jeff Hawkins unites the book into a breathtaking estate plan for humanity.
Continue reading “Hope for Humanity: Review of the book A Thousand Brains, by Jeff Hawkins”We Do Hard Things
Sure, we do hard things. But, why?
Tradition … Dah, Dah, Dum
Traditions are the distilled wisdom and memory of culture. Watching them change can be unsettling.
Machine Learning in Juypter Notebooks
:Links to Juypter notebooks with Python code written by Richard Barrett.
Evolution: Three Simple Steps Create the Explosion of Life
Evolution has only three steps: propagation, variation, and selection.
Family Wisdom
So you broke your leg. Walk it off.
Your trashcan is your friend.
Your brain is not your friend.
I want you to have that.
Who’s driving your bus?
Livin’ in the Clouds
Living at the Cloud House changed us profoundly. Leaving the Cloud House to pursue new adventures may change us even more.
Movin On – Cats Don’t Travel Well
Pets become family members. Relocating people can be hard. Relocating cats is much harder.
Trail of Sparks 