Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution blog had an interesting observation about the fact that apparently, the divorce rate in Silicon Valley goes up every time there's a giant IPO (e.g. Cisco, Google). This is apropos of the recent Facebook IPO, of course – although it should be noted that the Zuck got married on Saturday – not divorced. Maybe the divorce comes next week.
Day: May 21, 2012
Caveat: Math
I was talking on the phone – "phone teaching" – with a 4th grader named Jiyun.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"I'm studying."
"What are you studying?"
"Math," she answered, laconically.
"Do you like math?" I asked, trying to draw her out.
"Nooo. No. I don't like math." She paused. "It's's a big problem. My mother is a math teacher," she explained. Perfect English. Especially for a 4th grade elementary student. She'd made me laugh. I was impressed.
Speaking of math:
[Daily log: walking, 5 km; running, 2 km]