Craig Constantine

Student debt →

Published January 14, 2015 · All posts on Jan 14

Put it all together, and even a student who works part-time and attends a second-rate state university can easily graduate owing over $100,000.
Welcome to the professional class, kid. Just don’t expect to keep any of the money you make. And I almost forgot to mention: We’ve let public transportation go to hell, so you’ll need to buy a car. (Here’s another loan.) We’re letting public schools fail, so if you have kids and want them to stay in the professional class, you’ll need to send them to private schools (Here’s another loan.) And we’re going to toss that national-health-care idea out on its ear, but don’t worry, if you get sick you can put it on your Visa.
~ Doug Muder, from Student Debt

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What’s the constant? →

Published January 13, 2015 · All posts on Jan 13 · Parkour, My Journey

This entry is part 10 of 72 in the series My Journey

This change really seperates people. It’s not going to be like it used to be. You can’t ‘go back to training’ as you once did. That one Jam that you remember is a small part of your whole experience that you remember fondly. It’s one highlight in a long journey, which isn’t just highlights. What’s the constant in these memories?
It’s Parkour.
~ Chris Grant, from Change

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You don’t have a job, you have a hobby →

Published January 11, 2015 · All posts on Jan 11 · 7 for Sunday

That’s the only test that counts. It’s not how hard you work, it’s what happens if you stop. If quitting means real hardship for you or your family, you have a job. If you keep at it even though you could spend the rest of your life skipping rocks at your house by the lake, you have a hobby.
I’ve got nothing against hobbies. The Weekly Sift is a hobby. One way to describe the Marxist vision of Utopia is that we’d all be hobbyists, and the world’s work would get done by people who just wanted the satisfaction of doing it. (That vision even works sometimes: Wikipedia, open source software, and so on.)
~ Doug Muder from, Rich People Don’t Have Jobs

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Overcoming instant gratification →

Published January 10, 2015 · All posts on Jan 10 · Motivation

The second way of living is the opposite: eat simple food in moderation, enjoy the Internet but with limits so that we can focus on important work, get away from TV and computers once in awhile to enjoy nature and being active and exercising, shopping less and having less possessions, finding focus and being mindful. It’s not that we don’t indulge in the treats of the first way, but we do it with a little restraint, and consciousness.
~ Leo Babauta from, A Brief Guide to Overcoming Instant Gratification

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Why funny people kill themselves →

Published January 9, 2015 · All posts on Jan 9

You ever have that funny friend, the class-clown type, who one day just stopped being funny around you? Did it make you think they were depressed? Because it’s far more likely that, in reality, that was the first time they were comfortable enough around you to drop the act.
~ David Wong from, Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves

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The republic of babel →

Published January 8, 2015 · All posts on Jan 8

But democracies need to be able to talk. I have to know more than just what you want to do or want me to do. I need to understand why you want what you want, and I need to be able to explain why I want something different. We have to be able to discuss the nuances of our hopes and fears and plans — what’s absolutely essential and what isn’t — so that we can cobble together a solution that we can all live with.
~ Doug Muder, from The Republic of Babel

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Six programming paradigms →

Published January 7, 2015 · All posts on Jan 7

This is not your grandma’s “functional programming will change the world!” blog post: this list is much more esoteric. I’d wager most readers haven’t heard of the majority of the languages and paradigms below, so I hope you have as much fun learning about these new concepts as I did.
~ Yevgeniy Brikman, from Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding

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Quebec on Thursday! →

Published January 5, 2015 · All posts on Jan 5 · Parkour

Is there a word for: “excited to meet new people, train in a new place, and freeze to death, all at the same time.” That’s how I feel.

Where the jobs are →

Published January 5, 2015 · All posts on Jan 5

While America continues to create market-dominating companies like Apple or Google, the number of American jobs they provide doesn’t compare with market-dominating American companies of the past like General Electric or Ford.
The reason why is simple: While much of the design and management happens in America, most of the physical products are manufactured in low-wage economies like China. Those factories that remain in America are highly automated, so that our manufacturing employment plummets even as our manufacturing output continues to rise. America still makes a lot of stuff, it’s just not made by people.
~ Doug Muder, from Where the Jobs Are and Why

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Photo gallery for this series

This post presents a gallery of ALL images in this series. You can click on any to enlarge; you can even click on the first, sit back, and it’ll run them all as a slide show. The gallery is dynamic so it will automatically grow…