30
Sep

Quick Intro-to-Investing Tip: Investopedia.com

Wow! I had a very busy weekend and I’m still catching up, but I do want to share a site that I only recently was introduced to and find very interesting. I’m nearly positive some of y’all have heard of this before: Investopedia.com.

Investopedia.com provides information for managing your finances and building (or fine tuning) your [...]

24
Sep

Curiositá: The ‘secret’ ingredient of lifelong learning - Part 2

In part 1 of this 2-part series I spoke of the concept of using a heightened sense of curiosity while learning, in order to improve both performance and interest. I also spoke about how we’re all inherently born with this heightened sense of curiosity, and how it sadly diminishes in most of us as we [...]

23
Sep

Learning a Language the Diverse Way

Two posts ago, I mentioned that I’m trying to learn Spanish and I thought I’d just share the many different ways I’m going about it.

And as a quick note, I got quite a few resonses to that and I’m absolutely thrilled, but I’m sorry to say that my slow Spanish conversation skills will make the [...]

22
Sep

Curiositá: The ‘secret’ ingredient of lifelong learning - Part 1

I thought long and hard about what I really wanted to talk about in my inaugural post for Endless Scholar. Do I talk about some of the gadgets I use to facilitate my learning? Do I talk about some of the systems I have in place to help me learn? Or do I perhaps go [...]

21
Sep

Organizing Information: My Goal

In my last post, I outlined the problem of too much information and my desire to make that information useful. Today I’ll outline my ideal solution and where I’m currently stuck. Note that this will primarily focus on my work use but could be applied to any large topic such as travel or cooking.

The information [...]

20
Sep

Any Spanish Speakers Around?

Just a quick post to ask if we have anyone reading this that’s a fluent Spanish speaker. I’m trying to learn Spanish (I’ll post more about how and using what at a later date) and I thought it’d be fun to try to converse with someone who has similar interests. Anyone interested in chatting through [...]

20
Sep

Rob Reacquaints Himself

Hi All! I’m going to begin regular posting in the next couple of days but I just wanted to take a few moments to reacquaint myself with everyone, and to tell you a little bit about my time over the past few months.

Firstly I’ve got to tell you that I’m hugely excited to be part [...]

19
Sep

An Intro to My Dilemma of Handling Information

There is certainly a wealth of knowledge available, isn’t there!

My bookshelves overfloweth and my hard drive is constantly full to the brink. Now, that is a combination of pack rat and compulsive data mining, but it only takes a walk through a book store, library, or a stroll on the net to find that simply [...]

17
Sep

Dear Readers: The Future of this Site

Dear Readers,

Over the last several months, almost a year now, I’ve gone through many life changes that some of you already know about. All within a two month period, I went through graduating, getting married, moving, and starting a new career (and getting a puppy, which proved to be just as stressful!).

While this site has [...]