2015
Not all obstacles are worth fighting
The last few weeks have been utter hell for me, and by extension, Insanitek. Excavating my office took a week longer than it really should have. Not that I’ve found half the work stuff, but enough has been excavated to limp by. That, shockingly, is enough for now. It is what it is because the chaos […]
2015
July wasn’t the best of months [monthly update]
For those of you that didn’t know, we moved from the crappy, crime ridden place to a bigger place that doesn’t have evidence of flooding and a bit less crime. OK, to be fair, we’re still slowly unpacking and putting our life back together. And I’m wasted. Not just from the move, but because allergies […]
2015
Science literacy and homeopathy
When I attended uni, I wanted very much to be able to share my love of science and what I was learning with the world. Thus, I decided to volunteer at a local museum called Imagination Station and sign up as a substitute teacher at the locals schools. I was young, idealistic, and frankly quite […]
The Communication Gap
How does this sound to you: We will transition integrated articulation to close the achievement gap. Or this? We will agendize multidisciplinary explicit direct instruction within professional learning communities. This is what we call bullshit jargon. It’s a word salad of impressive sounding syllables thrown together in attempt to amaze. Frankly, though, it just makes eyes glaze […]
2015
An Outcry for Change Leads to Changes
Many times when we decry that something needs to change, we sit around and complain but don’t do a single thing beyond that. However, when multiple people cry out for change, a movement begins. An example from the world of education shows that this can be seen when people put a personal chance in nature […]
2015
Survive entrepreneurship without throwing sandwiches at people
One of my first jobs in the real world was in food service. Dairy Queen, actually. I thought it was a pretty good gig since I was reentering civilian life after a few years in military. It was easy, relaxing, and I was surrounded by good people. The paycheck was decent, so I really had […]
2015
Don’t be a wantrepreneur
The word wantrepreneur makes me wretch. It should make you wretch too. Why? Giving it a fashionable word embraced by the masses makes the mere want acceptable, but when you say it without putting forth the action to get past that want point, that’s all it will ever be. It’s fake. Mark Manson makes a point that there is […]
2015
It’s time to grow a spine
I could spend blog post after blog post for years trying to convince you it’s not safe to be an entrepreneur, but it’s so worth the journey. There are already a million (I didn’t count) blogs out there already centred around this. Some of them are horse shit, others are not. While I could easily […]
2015
Is It Really A Leap?
We use some pretty interesting language to describe how we feel about change in life, especially when it seems like a huge change. English novelist, among other things, David Lawrence wrote: Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. — D. H. Lawrence Woah. That’s pretty dramatic, no? It almost sounds […]
2015
Being an entrepreneur will make you cry
Fear and being a business owner go hand in hand. We worry about whether we are doing the right things to get notice… then we worry about being noticed because of what will they think. We can’t help but think it. Even the most secure of us still wonders what they could be doing differently, better, […]
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