8am.com recommended a new Substack from Justin Mares, who uniquely reframes passion.  The next problem we review is expanding computer science education using an integrated approach.  Matt Johnson teams up with Jools Holland for a flashback performance on Later with Jools Holland and an Irish Funeral You have to see to believe. 

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Today's big story comes from the youth; in the same way, we listen to as much new music as possible, and our enthusiasm for highlighting great ideas has no age limits.  Justin Mares is a successful entrepreneur and fellow Substack writer.  His latest post this month focused on finding your way.  Instead of trying to figure out what your passion is, Mares suggests spending time on a problem.  Finding a problem you want to solve is another way of advancing your focus on passion.  Even if you are a writer, artist, or musician, you can direct your focus on solving a problem.  A writer can solve the problem of telling better stories.  A musician can help people who don't have a voice sing loud and proud.

If you have searched for your passion, read a book about finding your passion, or failed at creating a business around what you thought was your passion – Mares's post will resonate with you.  By reframing passion into a problem, you can put everything into it, remove obstacles, or at least improve your ability to work through each one to get to a solution.  Big problems are a long game; find the one you want to draw out the passion to solve.

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This week, the Conversation brings us a story about new ideas around preparing more teachers to teach computer science skills.  The demand for computer skills and computer science teachers has far exceeded the number of teachers with a degree or related degrees to teach the programs. 

Teach the teachers in traditional courses how to integrate computer science skills into the curriculum.  Education continues to get more digital and computerized by the year; add to that, a pandemic that hyper-accelerated the adoption of technology, and most students and teachers are in the thick of computers.  The more you can integrate the future into what we do now, the better the system can be.

Here is an early video of Matt and The The playing on Later with Jools Holland.  A great version of Uncertain Smile, with Holland on the piano.

Who knew the Irish had such a dark and hilarious sense of humor.  In a video, we can only describe how to bring your family from tears to laughter; an unknown man leaves a recording of himself in his coffin that goes off as he is buried. 

Soul Asylum Seeker.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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