physics
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Over the years, I have enjoyed studying topics, like the Civil War, that are not directly related to my career as part of my approach of seeking to improve. Shelby Foote once said “The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things…” Lincoln’s speech…
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When I was in college, much of the physics curriculum didn’t quite take for me. As I got later in my academic career, some of the ideas started to make more sense. Now, many years later, I have been seeking to relearn some of the material. To be honest, some of that relearning is probably learning things for…
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Years ago, my first boss after I finished graduate school shared his beliefs that “all learning applies to everything else” and that “more brains are better for every job.” I learned more from him than I have probably learned from any of my subsequent bosses. Maybe that was him. Maybe that is because of where I was then…
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Like a number of folks that I know, I have admired Richard Feynman for some time. His physics lectures are inspiring and intimidating for me at the same time. Every time I read one of his lectures, I take away a new insight. And, I leave with a renewed perspective on the limits of what…
Musings of an Analyst 