Making the Case for Textbooks: Calling Out Seth Godin’s Rant

Seth Godin recently wrote a blog post where he rants about the uselessness of textbooks.  His rant concludes with this paragraph: This industry deserves to die. It has extracted too much time and too much money and wasted too much potential. We can do better. A lot better. I’m here to tell you that Seth is being very conveniently ignorant.  I mean this in the very literal sense, not the jealous girlfriend...

Google Maps: Get it Together (To put it politely…)

“****!  They got it wrong AGAIN! This is ****-****!” “You’re really selling me on this iPhone-thing, Ben,” my brother cheerfully chimed in. I was pissed.  I’d been in Austin for a week and was at the wrong place again. Why? Google Maps. … In July of 2007, I made a spur of the moment decision with a friend to buy a van and go on a road trip for three months.  On the trip,...