Let me share these interesting thoughts on school paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson. His thought on schools killing creativity have spread on the web - partly because he’s humorous and partly because he’s right.
But this is a more in depth look at the way we educate children and why it doesn’t work for most kids. [...]

I take lots of pictures. And since my boys arrived I take lots of pictures of my boys, their friends and cousins and so on.
If I should sum up my best tips for better photos, here goes:

Move to the childs eye level

When I browse blogs I see so many parrents walking up to their kids [...]

Do you like statistics? World history? Stats about world history? Neither do I. But I’ve had a whole new look at it with Hans Roslings ingenious way of presenting stats about how things have changes in our world through the years.
This presentation make numbers come to life. He draws the picture of what he wants [...]

Recently I’ve thought about what makes my day. Mainly because I have observed my self and found it a good thing to know.
I’m spending a lot of time at home, scheduling my day as I please. I have things to do, a home to run and different projects in the making. In the afternoon my [...]

Creativity. Difficult to describe. Get’s us from good to great. Can’t be forced.
But how do you make it unfold? How do you make room for creativity? Sir Ken Robinson gives an excellent talk on the matter here:
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One of my first essays in school was about creativity. As an 11yo I didn’t bring any wisdom or ground breaking research to the table - let me assure you. But I made the text all flashy on the computer with pictures and (- I remember -) Footrot bouncing through the text. In 1994 that was really fancy.
But never mind - [...]