Jesse Ross | jesseross.com

Jeff Bezos.

Sergey Brin.

Larry Page.

Jimmy Wales.

If you don’t know these names, you should. They’ve probably changed your life. Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are the founders of Google. Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia. So, other than all being founders of highly successful and life-altering internet presences, what else do they have in common? Yesterday I learned they were all Montessori students.

I think Tanya and I made the right choice of where to enroll Ali for her first school experience. Hopefully that will be the right cornerstone to help instill in her a love of learning and a desire to look outside of the normal to find solutions which can help everyone.

Tanya is trying to get me to stick to my commitment of posting once a week. Damn, I’m so far behind already. Lots of fun new stuff… here we go:

Classes started up again. I teach, for those just tuning in. I am teaching Intro to Interactive Media at the College of Visual Arts. You can unwatch the course unfold on the class blog. So far, the class is looking good. We’ll see if I can whip them into shape ;)

In more school related news, Ali started her first year of Montessori this year. She’s doing great so far, and I’m constantly impressed at the level of trust the teachers put in the students, and how much responsibility the kids learn because of that. This can only be a great experience for her.

In other news, I’m trying to get back into the Etoile and GNUstep communities after a summer haitus. Have been making both new friends and new icons. I’m thinking we might have some really cool stuff to show at FOSDEM next year.

Also, I’m working on my Internet fame. You should hopefully be seeing me pop up in a little video blog series I’m now a part of called Chasing Windmills. The folks who started it, Cristina Cordova and Juan Antonio del Rosario, are simply amazing. If you’ve got an evening or two on your hands, check out their first season… certainly some of the best video stuff being done on the web right now.

I think that’s about it… let’s see if I can’t be a bit more consistent about these updates, huh?

A bunch of my former students and fellow teachers at CVA have created a design resource blog — well worth checking out.