Stories and life lessons from traveling the past year.
Tag: Has Slides
Ultra Basic Guide to Photography
Things to help with getting started with photography – understanding terminology like exposure, shutter speed, ISO.
Confidence: Can I Has?!
Advice on how to be more self assured
Prepping for the Travelings
You’re planning on going backpacking. What do you pack? What apps will help make my traveling easier? Other such practical tips.
Accelerating Wine Learning
A talk about how to accelerate the speed at which you learn about wine. Includes tips on how to buy wine, getting the right glass, and sipping the wine to get the most flavour out of it.
Khantemplations, a series of lessons learned from coworkers
A talk about life lessons learned from a bunch of people from Khan Academy. More information here: http://david-hu.com/2015/01/14/khantemplations.html
Introduction to Churning Credit Cards
A talk about credit cards, getting frequent flyer miles, your credit score, and how to combine all of these things to travel (mostly) for free.
How to Build a Brain
The world’s largest functional brain model, Spaun, recently came out of a laboratory in Waterloo. But how was it made and why is it important? This presentation describes the tools (the Neural Engineering Framework and Nengo) that allowed for the creation of Spaun and what lies in the future of brain modelling.
Urban Exploration
Urban exploration – what it is, why its cool, how you should prepare, and what to think about while you’re doing it.
Mountaineering
Mountaineering – what it is, why its hard, the “8000ers”, and some of the biggest badasses in history.
Deck available here.
