Chiron

Back from a no-internet writing retreat on the Oregon Coast. Did over 5000 words in a single day on the "How to Teach" manuscript ...

Wrote this a couple of weeks ago and then got asked by David at YMAA to avoid mentioning the video Scaling Force . They were doing some kind...

Going back to Jeff's Rules: Everything you teach must have a tactical purpose. Corollary to that, the way you teach must have a purpos...

Written a couple of posts recently, but haven't been happy with them. Might be able to get them in reader-worthy shape eventually. One...

Writing on something. This one is hard. Probably broader and more complex than anything else I've tackled. Teaching and learning for eme...

And, thus, the seminar in the Netherlands ends. Sweet. Lots of fun and good people and well received, but I am tired down to the bone. Early...

In the last thirty days, all but four have been spent either teaching or on a plane. There will probably be a free day or two in Greece, but...

Just finished the second day of a three-day course for the training unit of a European city. After dinner, over coffee, the boss asked me, ...

Normally, my default is to simplify. To cut stuff out. By definition, efficiency means less wasted motion. The best athlete in any field mov...

Generally, martial arts are taught very poorly. For the so-called "traditional" Japanese and Okinawan arts, they way they are taug...

Minnesota was a big experience with a lot of learning. I'll debrief it when the lessons have had some time to settle. In the meantime,...

The writing project for the end of the year will begin in November. It won't be a novel, but I'll do it as part of the NaNoWriMo cha...

I have lesson plans. I have lesson plans coming out of my ears. I've written lesson plans for SAR, the Sheriff's Office, the Natio...

Enjoying Germany. Great people and food (had the Deutsch version of haggis last night, very good). Jet lag normally doesn't bother me bu...

Just finished reading a book, purporting to be about science, where the author was ridiculously ignorant about what science even means. Mayb...

VV, get it? Fifth post in a row starting with V? This will actually be the fourth post talking about validation. First, read this article an...

There will be one more post on validation but it's going to take a little research and composition. And it's political. So a short b...

Since I seem to have a theme going... Long good talk with Erik Kondo last week about improving navigation on CRGI and many other things....

You can't be sure. There is no such thing as a "survival level of proficiency." The world has a 100% death rate and no matter ...

Trying to answer an e-mail and it needs a little thinking out loud. It wasn't a big thing, there was a single sentence about validity, ...