Category Archives: The Input Learner

Apple iPad could be hit among elderly users

The following article ran as an Op-Ed in the Daily Toreader on March 31, 2010 – – – My grandparents have a paradox on their hands. They want the Internet, but they don’t want to learn how to use a  computer. For the last few years this has resulted in my parents getting  a call …

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Square up! Location has arrived

The following article appeared as an Op-Ed in the Daily Toreador on March 25th, 2010. So you’re in a pretty comfortable place. You’ve got an iPhone and you’re just starting to get a handle on the mobile scene. You’ve followed in Ashton and Oprah’s footsteps and gotten a Twitter account. You take pictures with your …

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Aristotle on the WOO Dilemma

While reading through Aristotle’s account of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics, I happened upon this very concise and accurately articulated account of the difficulty I have with the WOO (Winning Others Over) StrengthsQuest type: “…differences between friends most frequently arise when the nature of their friendship is not what they think it is. When therefore …

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