http://blog.potterzot.com peace corps, decision making, economics, startups...the list goes on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:42:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's about time for an LSAT recap.  After roughly five weeks of studying, during which I took 18 practice exams, I scored a 172.  I started at 167, so 5 points is not a bad improvement.  I waited until the last few weeks to really ramp up the test-taking, and ... http://blog.potterzot.com/2008/07/18/lsat-results/ Even though I'm leaving for the Peace Corps in August, I'm taking the LSAT soon, and the GRE a bit later. I've been thinking of applying to law school for a while now, and it would be good to be able to do so easily when I get back. ... http://blog.potterzot.com/2008/06/09/strategizing-for-the-lsat/ Every now and then I hear about some linux distribution and end up switching my install to play with it.  I've recently moved to Archlinux, which is a minimalist distribution aimed at installing only the basics and letting you proceed from there.  So now I'm in the process of designing ... http://blog.potterzot.com/2008/05/21/thinking-about-user-interface/ In the future Peace Corps related posts will take place on a separate blog: zot liming it in Dominica. This is primarily because I'd like all Peace Corps stuff to be in one spot, and that way I can continue posting on this blog when my Peace Corps service is ... http://blog.potterzot.com/2008/04/29/the-peace-corps-application-process/ I just wanted to let everyone know that I am changing the theme for The Decision Strategist. The old one is ok, but I'm looking to make it a little cleaner and increase the amount of space available for text. You'll probably see it changing over the next ... http://blog.potterzot.com/2008/04/22/theme-changing/ It struck me recently that the life of a person can be related to the a complexity metaphor. In a human life there are distinct stages. When young we are actively forming connections, building emotional and reasoning abilities. As we become older, we reach a limit in ... http://blog.potterzot.com/2008/04/22/humans-as-complexity-machines/ I have spent the last couple of months incredibly addicted to this little game called nethack. It's free and completely old school, and just terribly awesome. I have yet to beat it. Someday I'll post a story of my exploits. I was gearing up the other day to ... http://blog.potterzot.com/2008/02/16/in-which-i-fail-to-achieve-my-goals-but-it-gets-me-thinking-anyway/ It's funny how much of a role movies play in affecting our imagination. Last night I was thinking about some new projects at work and how I was excited to work on them. That I actually had work, especially exciting work, made me pretty happy with the idea ... http://blog.potterzot.com/2008/01/07/correlation-between-media-and-imagination/ It's interesting how different our perceptions of the world can be. I had a conversation recently in which a friend of mine was lamenting the pop culture orientation of young people these days (compared to the early 90's grunge scene of Nirvana et al.), but I've been consistently ... http://blog.potterzot.com/2008/01/02/pop-culture-rejection/ I'm officially on vacation. Doing laundry and packing up to head up to my mom's house for Christmas. Gonna do some snowboarding, sledding, eating of pie, and other generally good things about life. I hope all of you have a great week. http://blog.potterzot.com/2007/12/22/happy-holidays/