Things to Consider When Buying Toddler Puzzles
Toddler puzzles are a great educational and entertaining activity, and you can start early. At around 10 months, babies start to do their own version of puzzles: putting stuff –…
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Toddler Tech and Tablets – Where to Draw the Line?
Should you let your toddler play with a tablet, or other “toddler tech”? It’s a divisive topic. Many parents have strong opinions about this. Some claim their kids won’t be…
5 Fun Toddler Construction Paper Crafts
It’s raining out, you can’t bear to watch another episode of Dora or Diego, and you’ve got hours to pass before nap time or the next meal. And your toddler…
From Diapers to Dartmouth
This article on preparing toddlers for the Ivy League was originally posted on the Scouted blog. ** A few weeks ago during Scouted team lunch, I joked that I’d write…
Tracking Personal Finances
I spend a few hours every month, neurotically tracking personal finances for me and my family. At the end of every month, I go through each of our accounts and…
ProjectSHERPA: a startup retrospective
Over several years, while fully employed, some friends and I built a startup with whatever time we could scrape together. ProjectSHERPA was an imagining of what the tech recruiting marketplace could…
Better Babies
When I was a baby, my parents did flash cards with me – tons of flash cards, hundreds a day, for several years. They started this with me when I…
Can Yelp Reviews Predict Real Estate Prices?
I took a Data Science class in my MBA program, and I was recently re-reading our final project write-up. The assignment was to take a complex data set, do some analysis on…
I Type Faster Than You
The average person types around 40 words per minute (WPM). I type about 130-140 WPM (proof). Sometimes, and this might sound weird, I feel in the zone and can type…
Don’t Look at My Baby
My daughter, Riley, was born about a month ago. Months before that, our families were already asking for pictures – of the ultrasounds. (An AVG Technologies study found that 1…