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• Don't Just Read a Book, Grok It
  Don't Just Read a Book, Grok It: Grokking a book contributes to it’s evolution, adding to the ideas. Think about it. A book is an evolution of ideas. Reach to the back and there you will find in the index references to other ideas that sparked the one in your hands. It isn’t the book you are grokking but the ideas in them. The book can hardly contain th […]
• There is no "Doing School"
  There is no "Doing School": “Unschoolers learn just like you or I learn as adults: based on what interests them, figuring out how to learn it on their own, changing as they change, using whatever resources and learning materials they find, driven by curiosity and practical application rather than because someone says it’s important.” […]
• My New Code of Awesome is to Steal Like an Artist
  My New Code of Awesome is to Steal Like an Artist: The original Code of Awesomeness comes from MindValleyInsights. That code allows them to connect internally and externally with people all over the world. In fact their goal is to connect with 500 million people people by 2050. It is a great code and I am going to steal it. […]
• "For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than..."
  “For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about. And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished […]
• "Tonight, Senate Republicans voted to block the Buffett Rule, choosing once again to protect tax..."
  “Tonight, Senate Republicans voted to block the Buffett Rule, choosing once again to protect tax breaks for the wealthiest few Americans at the expense of the middle class. The Buffett Rule is common sense. At a time when we have significant deficits to close and serious investments to make to strengthen our economy, we simply cannot afford to keep spending […]