Monthly Archives: April 2014

Dreams and Feedback Loops

By Calvin Froedge | Published: April 28, 2014

I had a dream last night about Chris Granger.  He worked on Microsoft’s Visual Studio team, and then went on to build LightTable, a next generation IDE written in Clojure.  I’ve known about LightTable for a couple of years, but have only begun using it recently.  The takeaway from the dream was, “Get to know [...]

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Why Abe Lincoln Would be Homeless Today

By Calvin Froedge | Published: April 26, 2014

“Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level: all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals.” – CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters We have, in American culture, most curious ideas about equal opportunity.  Where once we valued inventive [...]

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Sex is a Ghetto

By Calvin Froedge | Published: April 25, 2014

We’ve got a big problem in this country with intellectual honesty.  After all, 46% of Americans still believe that God created man in the past 10,000 years.  Any educated person accepts that the earth is not flat, that there is no tortoise carrying the world on its shell, and that knowing a lot about plants [...]

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