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Dungeons, Dragons, and Brain Science

by Megan M. on August 11, 2009 · View Comments (Blog) | email me

Last week I spent about an hour working up a spreadsheet to calculate some obscure price vs benefit analysis for a product I buy. Their pricing structure was technically broken, I realized—at least, the way they explained it. I waded gleefully through numbers and equations and dollar signs and came up with a much better [...]

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Lazy Reader

by Megan M. on January 25, 2009 · View Comments (Blog) | email me

I have a confession to make. I’m a (super) lazy reader. I have always read very quickly and easily—reading is fun. Reading is a relaxing, soothing activity. It’s like trying to absorb information while sleeping; it’s effortless. This made especial sense when all I read was fiction growing up (sci-fi, fantasy, dragons, witches, magic horses, [...]

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Nearly Complete Curriculum

by Megan M. on January 4, 2009 · View Comments (Blog) | email me

Megan’s Self-Learnification Extravaganza shall commence shortly. Please take off your seat belts and wander around the cabin, adjusting seat backs at random. It’s going to be a bracing flight! (There’s more information in notes on the photo in Flickr. Click safely!)

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I feel like the luckiest kid in the world. I’m obsessed with reading material and I have access to reading material. I’m not in the best of financial situations, but I am still able to further my own development by buying great books—about business, about people, about the world. And I have a little bit [...]

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Books for the Megan (and more to come)

by Megan M. on December 31, 2008 · View Comments (Blog) | email me

If you can’t hear the crazed gleeful gurgling, you’re just going to have to imagine it.

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Last week I ordered an insane number of books. (People who sent me Amazon gift certificates for Christmas: YOU WIN. People who are noodling over what to send me: That would be your subtle hint…) I’m long overdue for some gorgeous hardcore reading, and I have not a few fantastic reasons to ramp up my [...]

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