Alex_Butters

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by Alex_Butters 10y ago
I don't think of tesla as a "car and battery" company but as a "portable battery (the supposed car) and a home battery" company. They already partner with (or own) SolarCity so really their overarching business is a
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by Alex_Butters 10y ago
When I gave my first college lecture, I actually started wandering off half way through in my head wondering how this model of me talking, them listening ever worked or even lasted. By the end of the semester, I was "flipping"lect
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by Alex_Butters 10y ago
Even being a poor grad student at an Ivy feels like this. The undergrads are wealthy and the grad students cherish every dollar of their ~$30k salary while still sometimes do side work to get by since city's have rents set for the high
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by Alex_Butters 10y ago
I have tons of lab work you can do for me if you want to get your hands dirty, your pants wet, and your skin dyed for weeks. Desk job versus hands on both have pros and cons. Luckily I'm half/half each so it makes both good and bo
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by Alex_Butters 10y ago
you realize every sweetener is a chemical, right? What if they replace sugar with sugar? There are tons of types of sugars that can replace one another. Lots of sweeteners actually come from plants and microbes.
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by Alex_Butters 10y ago
A middle ground is best from my experience in lecturing. Lecturing for the first time made me realize why I had always slept through classes in HS, UG, and grad school. But as a lecturer, doing a complete 180 flip is too work intensive. I f
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by Alex_Butters 10y ago
just open in incognito mode
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by Alex_Butters 10y ago
Students hate flipped classrooms from my experience teaching. But lecturing is also ineffective. It should not be a binary process but rather one where you use one method for X types of learning and the other from Y types of learning. Flipp
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by Alex_Butters 10y ago
What about the idea of mandatory vacation? If a company gives you 2 weeks, you must take it. If 2 weeks before the end of the year you have not used it, you can't come in then.