Is “Unschooling” The Word For It?

I saw "An Unschooling Manifesto » Dave Pollard" discussed in Fred Wilson's blog today. Very interesting stuff. Pollard talks about how he was allowed to escape the "system" and that his grades improved dramatically. It reminded me of Eric Ries' post on software folks. Ries says that software programmers learn on their own. Most software-types...

Seth Says » “We Don’t Care What You Say”

We care what you do in What you say, what you do and who you are The follow on to this is that change takes longer than one thinks because "No cares what you say ... they care what you do". If you've got a good track record of delivering on your word ( ie...

OECD Reports on “Online ID Theft” » Offline may still be worse

The OECD recently published a book on Online Identify Theft. I was hoping for some unified OECD statistics like the Broadband Portal, but unfortunately one of their major findings is that very few countries count ID Theft. ID theft (whether offline or online) has largely failed to attract the attention of statisticians. Most data are...

BC-STV Means Double The Work for a Typical Voter » not good

Here are a few sticking points for me A voter has a lot more work to do under STV. In the past I had 1 vote for 1 MLA from a list of 2-5 candidates. Which usually meant that I'd learn about two of them, and select one. In my STV district there would be...

What the !@#$ is BC-STV

I've spent some time today trying to figure how to vote on the BC-STV. It is not a "no-brainer" decision. At it's simplest, the current 81 MLAs in 81 ridings would change to 81 MLA's distributed over 20 ridings. The ridings would have multiple MLAs. For example, the North Shore would have 4 MLAs. Here...