Self Taught Life is a science, technology, programming, and general geek culture blog designed with the self learners in mind. Those who have an insatiable appetite for learning. We are the people who read course books for recreation. The people who want to know how everything around us works. The people who own an etymological dictionary and care about what the hell that is. The people who cared why Pluto was no longer a planet. We are neurotic, sometimes weirdly obsessive, not necessarily well educated or intelligent but consider learning a sport, something we want to be good at. Living a "Self Taught Life" is living in the world of information, not only believing that “knowledge is power” but believing that “life is about knowing”. They are just very curious people with an obsessive tendency toward self teaching (autodidactism).
Self taught individuals are often drawn to science and technology of all sorts. These fields offer a seemingly endless well of study since they move forward so quickly no person can consume it all, this offers the challenge autodidacts enjoy. How much can you learn? How quickly can you do it? How deeply can one person understand any one thing? These are the questions that autodidacts ask themselves. The stories, recommendations and other works available on this site are not all necessarily focused on the sciences or technology but more on the act of learning things.
Submissions are always welcome. I'm sure you can figure out an e-mail address at this domain name to contact me.
-Jon
