What Andy is Excited About

Physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman made many notable contributions to the field of physics as well as the rest of the world. His most admirable qualities, however, are in his infectious and inspiriting passion for knowledge and his great communication skills. He was a master teacher.

You might  be wondering to yourself, why is Andy doing this? Well, here are some reasons. (You also might find this post helpful, too)

1. I love to learn.

I have a huge passion for knowledge and learning, but I have found that this passion of mine would never have been anywhere without the hundreds people who were willing to share their knowledge with me. So I want to start giving back.

2. I want you to love learning

I also feel for the people out there who want to learn about cool stuff, but don’t want to get bogged down by technical details.  Believe it or not, most fascinating topics don’t require a doctorate to understand.

All I ask is that you donate a few neurons. You will not be disappointed. In fact, you just might become addicted to learning.

3. Learning is useless if nobody understands you.

In both my professional and personal life, I work very hard at capturing some of the finer points of things so that I can explain it to others. Communication is very important in all aspects of life. In many ways, wording what I know into interesting writing is an attractive challenge to me.

4. You can learn about me.

Ok, we can’t deny that there is always a narcissistic element to doing blogs. I will try to downplay that here. To me, this blog seems like a good way to keep my friends and family figure out my perspective on things.

In many ways, I view this whole project as a constructive way of coming out of the geek closet. I’ve spent much of my life trying to be a normal non-geek, until I realized that a “normal” person is someone who is just plain indifferent about the world around them. Which brings me to my next point…

5. To fight the forces of indifference

I don’t know when this happened, but somewhere  between 2nd grade and 8th grade, everyone became “too cool for school”. Being passionate about learning all of the sudden becomes geeky. By the time folks get to college, learning became all about careers. Well, I’m here to say that learning is an end. It’s not just a means to getting a job, or whatever end you have in mind. Let’s just celebrate learning, and not be embarrassed about it.