I've been meaning to comment on these tweets for a while: I went to high school with some scary smart people. Never made math team. Didn't get into honors math. Thought I wasn't good at it. — Stanislav Nikolov (@snikolov) June 30, 2016 @zamansky :D that's the thing though you can get such an inferiority complex by always comparing yourself to others https://t.co/LvaMjp1WVf — Stanislav Nikolov (@snikolov) July 1, 2016 Stan, of course, is one of the most talented people I know.

I saw this headline earlier today: The U.S. Just Made a Bold Move to Improve Diversity in Tech. The article talks about a program by which a number of code schools will be able to accept federal student aid. I don't know if we're talking student loans or grants but I'm not sure it matters. The headline sounds great. I'm not so sure that this is a good thing.

Earlier today I read this post by Eliot Horowitz, founder and CTO of MongoDB. Eliot titled the post "Innovate vs Appropriate" and talks about the importance of knowing when to come up with something new vs when to use the accepted tool, technique, or method. Eliot, of course is discussing this as it applies to MongoDB and it's well worth a read but it got me thinking about the ever popular need to "disrupt" education.

Yesterday I read over Hillary's briefing on her initiative on Technology and Innovation. A lot of it sounds good but, at least for the education piece, I have my doubts. My feeling is that she's pretty much aligned with the current administration education wise and the current administration has been as bad if not worse than the previous with respect to public education. While I have issues with some of the education pieces and very much like some of the others, I don't want to get into that today.

Yesterday, I saw the New York Premiere of Navajo Math Circles, a documentary on a Math Circle put in place to support and enrich the currently under-served community in the Navajo educational system. At their core, Math Circles are math outreach and enrichment programs. I'm most familiar with the New York Math Circle. I'm friends with many of their teachers and organizers and my son took part in their summer program for a couple of years.