Oddities in Sweden:
1. A lot of things are made of wood - like your hotel room key, coffee spoons, ice buckets for the room, clothes hangars, and more. It’s environmentally understandable - better to use wood than plastic, especially for anything disposable, but it’s still odd at times.
2. Leather elevator. I kid you not, the [...]

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It’s funny, being a weird blend of developer, manager, and marketer, how people perceive your abilities. I was reflecting on this when I was looking over both the Facebook Development Platform and some of my work at the Student Loan Network. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a snack coder, a snack developer. In [...]

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Yesterday we traded in our 2001 Hyundai Elantra for a new blue Prius. Very nice car, lots of goodies. A few things I’ve learned so far:

Coasting generates the most power. Regenerative braking is a bit of a misnomer - as long as the car is moving and you’re not actively accelerating quickly, the car’s generating [...]

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In a conversation with Bryan Person last night, we were discussing why I was even setting up this web site, since I already devote a large amount of time to the Financial Aid Podcast. The essence of discussion was simply this:
Your show is you. You are not your show.
Your show is you. Unless you’re podcasting [...]

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… looks like it’s going to be a nice place to live.
What will be here, at the less than modestly named ChristopherSPenn.com? Mostly stuff that doesn’t belong at my day job publications, like the Financial Aid Podcast or the Financial Aid Newsletter.
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