The best advice my father ever gave me was to start a fire. My family owns a cabin out in the middle of nowhere. For nine months a year, it sits empty, and during the summer, various branches of the … Keep reading
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Bathtub Full of Money
“…Not because I’m some patchouli-scented, fuzzy-headed, ‘information wants to be free’ info-hippie. I’m at it because I want to fill my bathtub with money and rub my hands and laugh and laugh and laugh.” –Cory Doctorow, from the forward of … Keep reading
Taking a Class Because I Want To
Today, for the first time in more than 16 years of school, I experienced the pleasure of taking a class because I wanted to, not because I had to. In high school, I was an atheist with questions. I wasn’t … Keep reading