Category: Personal
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A few weeks ago Sophia started taking piano lessons and she has been incredibly excited. For a five-year-old, she is really tenacious – she sits down at the piano without any reminders and practices on her own every day.
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Well, we refer to the whale watching excursion as “THE EXPERIENCE”. We kind of saw a few blue humpback whales (mostly their flukes), but the sea was incredibly rough and we all were seasick and really cold.
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As a general rule I don’t post too many personal things on my business blog – I keep a separate blog for my personal projects/photography. However, these photos mean a great deal to me. My grandmother is 94 years old; she survived World War II, Stalin’s repressions, a decade of life near the Arctic circle,…
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In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell tells stories of Bill Gates, the Beatles, and many others who became incredibly successful. He (Gladwell) claims that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become really good at anything – music, painting, programming, flying airplanes. In theory, 10,000 hours sounds great, but who…
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My kids and I did some hands on experiments with physical computing and electricity. Initially I only intended to do these experiments with Daniella, but Sophia seems to be pretty interested as well. Using an Arduino board, a breadboard, a 10OM resistor and a few wires we made a simple capacitive sensor. Capacitive sensors take human body capacitance…
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My grandmother Olga is 93 years old, soon to be 94. She is an amazing woman and one of the most important people in my life. Even though I talk to her on the phone about 3 times a week, I only get to see her 2-3 times a year. Every time I take the…
Dmitriy B. 
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