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These guys have created hundreds of programs that teach math without language through puzzles: Teaching Math Without Words, A Visual Approach to learning Math from MIND Research Institute
December 15, 2011
Not to harp on how great it is to be able to spend my day building software (Programmer – The Best Profession?), but I’m deep in to two projects right now and I can barely make time to feed myself and sleep (let alone spend time with my newborn daughter). I’m not entirely sure whether […]
December 11, 2011
Ok, sorry about the title. I’m sure there are many many great professions and I have no idea how to make a legitimate argument that being a programmer is the best profession, but I do think it’s a very very good profession. Here I am, working on a Sunday not because I have to, but […]
December 11, 2011
I’ve spent most of my professional career founding companies and building products. Up until a few months ago I had a deep sense of ownership over each of the products I built. A few months ago, though, I teamed up with someone to build a product and have struggled to feel any ownership over the […]
December 6, 2011
This is one of my favorite approaches to problem solving and just creativity in general. Basically you take the problem or any obvious solutions and try to flip them upside down, try to think about the opposite. I took one computer science course in college (it actually helped me rediscover my passion for programming). Anyways […]
December 3, 2011
I just stumbled across an article from Time blog: http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/30/the-protege-effect/ It describes exactly why I built Upside Down Academy Trying to teach is a great way to learn something. Ideally you want to try and teach someone who understands the material less than you do, so it doesn’t feel like a completely pointless exercise, but […]
December 2, 2011
I have no doubt in my mind that all of my children (so far I just have one daughter) will learn how to program. “But what if she doesn’t show an interest in programming?” More and more that question to me sounds like someone asking “But what if she doesn’t show an interest in reading […]
November 27, 2011
Apple continues to show that it has more creative initiative and nuanced understanding of its customers then most companies. There’s always been a dilemma in retail. You want to help the customer, but you don’t want to pester them. Ideally the customer approaches you and asks for help, but if you’re not available or the […]
Jared Cosulich 
December 26, 2011
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