Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06

Listened to this podcast several months ago, but was talking with my wife about it last night.  The podcast suggests that parents don’t have a life long impact on there kid’s earning.  However, we can have a impact on other parts of there lives.  Listen below and find out: The Economist’s Guide to Parenting Freakonomics…

I was reading this article a couple days ago and it really made me start to think.  Many of the problems I face both in my professional life and personal life are technical in nature, but the root cause or more importantly the way to prevent them from happening  wasn’t technical in nature at all….

When I travel and we are working late into the night it can be hard to find a time to talk with my son. In addition, my son loves to pretend to talk on the phone, but hasn’t been so keen on talking on the real telephone. This time was different. He left me the…

This was a really interesting article.  It is insightful that the real effectiveness of a number of treatments that are now standard may increase quantity of life at a much higher rate than the quality of life. How Doctors Die « Zócalo Public Square.