In his “Authors @ Google” talk, one of Dan Ariely’s most interesting stories involves his experience in a hospital as a teenager while being treated for severe burns. He recounted how the nurses would remove his bandages in one quick swoop, an experience that he dreaded due to the incredible [...]

This post is a bit different from what you will normally find on this blog. It is simply a tribute to a man who recently passed away, and whose impact on this world was magnificent. I truly believe we all can learn a lot from John Wooden. John Wooden was [...]

What you need to do early is get comfortable with uncertainty and confident in your ability to seek and find the information you need. The internal workings of your computer can be a paralyzingly daunting subject at first, but that very computer also provides the tools that allow you to comprehend it at a rate unavailable in other fields.

You need to start getting to know how to use a text editor as Drake says “sooner than later”. As such I couldn’t justify going any further without teaching you how to use my best friend in the robot world, emacs.

Your capacity for exploration is limited. Your curious impulses are stunted. Your decision making process, while well established and fine-tuned by the sheer number of products pushed in your face on a daily basis, is nonetheless contingent on having the options clearly and plainly presented to you.

You will have no such luxuries in the shell. Nobody is watching what you do, nobody is there to help you along or to hold you back. All the information you could ever want is available to you, but no-one will help you find it.