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Motto: Google is God There's a Google product you should know about; it's called Google Takeout . It  is not a food service, so don't get excited. Don't make the same joke that literally 5 people I've told about this have made. Google Takeout is a service that allows you to take out  your data from Google - in theory so that you could go to some other service and keep your data. In reality, it's probably best just for seeing an aggregate list of everything they have of yours and about you. I requested an archive of everything they had associated with my account, leaving out Google Drive (because I have 500GB+ in the cloud & don't need them to send me my own files back to me) . Then I spent a week's worth of free time going through it all & taking 5 full pages of notes about what I found. This post is primarily the contents of those notes. Now, before we get into that. I am pro-Google. I use or have used almost every one of their publ...

Motto: Opportunity Missed Remember how I said I want to write a book, and how I might dump stuff on here that's from the book? This is counting. ----------------------- start snippet  -----------------------  1.1                Counting Counting is the most important thing you'll ever learn in school. Everything in math is goes back to counting. Everything in physics we describe in terms of math, which goes back to counting. Everything in chemistry is attributable to physics, which is described in terms of math, which goes back to counting. Biology is just applied chemistry. Sociology is just applied biology. All of it goes back to counting. Counting is a fundamental element of science. We count using numbers. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Zero One Two Three Four Five ...

Motto: Free the Beast I want to write a book.  I don't to write a book so that I can "I'm a guy who's written a book", but because I have something have I wanted to create since 2011, right before I graduated college. I've have vague and specific ideas about this thing I want to write. 8 years ago I started a Word doc to get some thoughts down. I've sat down many evenings since then and added to it. Right now it's a 57 pages... of mostly just outlines for content to come. The struggle I'm having is how to describe what I want the book to be. I want to write a study guide for every test I've ever taken.  I want to make a reference book that also teaches fundamental concepts.  I want to explain the concepts I learned in school how I wish they'd have been explained to me. I want to be funny. I want to be serious. I want to have something to give my son that teaches him what I've learned over the past 30 years. I want to cov...