A fellow appreciator of rugs! I have two rugs my parents had nomads weave for us when we lived in Iran during the time of the Shah. It's fascinating to see similarities in some of the geometric patterns that are used in the rug you show here. I had the rugs professionally cleaned about 15 years back

Or maybe that's my cynicism.

One of the things I observed watching the kids during "online school" during C-19 (long story, I have very good broadband and my house became a hub for several neighborhood kids and their access) is that the poor teachers did worse and the good teachers did better. Since the mid-2010s a few co-worke

...if you think about the concept of the (somewhat mythological) 10x engineer, for example, and I wrote something about this on LinkedIn recently. Leveraging my virtual army of AI Girl Fridays, I have FAR more "power" now at my disposal than I ever did both intellectually and creatively than I did w

Are you only managing for yourself or a broader group? I rarely see this discussed, and see a couple mentions of Apple Music earlier in the thread. It's easy to overlook, but the combination of Lossless, the new Apple Classical app (also, see their recent announcement about new concerts and preserva

And the watch is nice too!

Prayers for your wife's recovery! I'm outside DC, the potential DC JMU on Friday, plus DC NYC on Sat, plus DC JMU on Sunday for the concert was going to be a bit much. On top of all that, in my late 50s I'm doing the Rodney Dangerfield "Back to School" routine at University chasing degrees in a new