journal features

happiness is a new classroom

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2017.09.12

I've pulled the plug on my data science MOOC: the instruction was aimless, and the assignments uneven. But I've still got "professional development credits" to earn this year, and I happen to have several glaring skill gaps. So I've signed up for another course: one on influence and negotiation.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov