If you dropped them into a new city at 18, could they run their life? That’s the floor.
Denver, Colorado
Joined January 2009
- Tweets3.9K
- Following136K
- Followers158K
- Likes854
LifeEducation.org retweeted
AI didn’t invent fake learning. It exposed how often education confused polished work with actual understanding.
I don’t want the 10-looking project from a student still at 1.
Show me the kid who moved from 1 to 3.
That’s learning.
lifeeducation.org/posts/show…
LifeEducation.org retweeted
Once you understand that the world is full of highly neurotic people who need a doom's day scenario to validate their emotions, it all makes much more sense: Malthusian starvation, pandemic, climate, and now AI. I wish we still had "the devil" to play this part.
LifeEducation.org retweeted
Pink Floyd had four perfect albums in a row.
Dark Side. Wish You Were Here. Animals. The Wall.
Four certified skulls. Clean sweep.
And of those four fucking monsters, I still pick Animals.
Straight Greats No. 6:
ourolddad.com/post/straight-…
AI didn’t invent fake learning. It exposed how often education confused polished work with actual understanding.
I don’t want the 10-looking project from a student still at 1.
Show me the kid who moved from 1 to 3.
That’s learning.
lifeeducation.org/posts/show…
LifeEducation.org retweeted
Don’t Shoot Me! These Handcuffs Keep Falling Off. More of my adventures in the Philippines.
ourolddad.com/post/dont-shoo…
LifeEducation.org retweeted
The Golden Olden Days Were a Denominator Trick lifeeducation.org/posts/gold…
New on LifeEducation.org Check it out and let us know what you think!
LifeEducation.org retweeted
In 1983, a fake Kentucky license got me into the bars.
The music did the rest.
“Come On Eileen.” “Electric Avenue.” “Hungry Like the Wolf.” “Rock the Casbah.” Forty-five songs that still sound less like the ’80s than they do like Honolulu.
ourolddad.com/post/the-83-ha…
LifeEducation.org retweeted
Joe Walsh was exactly the right kind of crazy for high school boys listening to Chicago radio in the early ’80s.
34 songs, the Caribou Ranch connection, and a catalog that gets better the closer you listen.
How ya doin’?
ourolddad.com/post/joe-walsh…
LifeEducation.org retweeted
Our latest playlist: The Five Years Before I Was Born ourolddad.com/post/five-year…
The playlist on @youtubemusic music.youtube.com/playlist?l…
The Golden Olden Days Were a Denominator Trick lifeeducation.org/posts/gold…
New on LifeEducation.org Check it out and let us know what you think!
LifeEducation.org retweeted
The latest on Our Old Dad:
How the Straight Greats Scorecard Works ourolddad.com/post/how-the-s…
LifeEducation.org retweeted
The next time you’re feeling down, remember it's all about perspective. I got a friend who reads 2-3 books a week, works out twice a day, has no financial worries, & has people who want to have sex with him all the time & yet he constantly complains about how much he hates prison
LifeEducation.org retweeted
Teenagers today have the entire world in their pockets. At 17, I had a fake Kentucky license, $100, and enough confidence to hand it to two strangers because one looked like Spicoli.
I got Hawaiian weed.
My friends got oregano.
ourolddad.com/post/my-friend…
LifeEducation.org retweeted
I watched Nomadland again and finally understood what scared me about it.
Not the van. Not the road.
Being stranded—and knowing how thin the line is between choosing a nomadic life and getting trapped in one.
ourolddad.com/post/closer-to…
LifeEducation.org retweeted
2/2
We eventually found the actual detour.
It was fine.
The trip turned out great, but I learned I’m no longer the loose vagabond I pretend is still in there.
New Our Old Dad post: Google Almost Killed Us
ourolddad.com/post/google-al…
LifeEducation.org retweeted
1/2
Google Maps tried to save us from a 3-mile dirt-road detour near Ouray and instead routed our family pickup toward Black Bear Pass.
No guardrails, highway tires, two little kids in the back, and Raven calmly saying, “Dad, I don’t really like driving up the mountain.”
LifeEducation.org retweeted
Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.
Why?
1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.
2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.
3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.
4:
LifeEducation.org retweeted
The number can be real.
The story bolted onto it can still be a lie.
“What Scales Is the Fantasy” is about school success, roster control, temporary bumps, and why so many celebrated models never actually scale.
lifeeducation.org/posts/what…
