- Preface
- Chapter 1.Chased By the Bad Guys
- Vietnam Experience
- Victory Garden
- Final Checkpoint
- Personalize the Concept
- Summary
- Chapter 2.The Train Wreck
- Day of Death
- When Safety is Optional
- 35 Fewer Employees Killed
- Immoral Profit Strategies
- Our Code of Ethics
- Unsafe Power Imbalance
- WhatsApp and Signal
- Walk Away?
- Summary
- Chapter 3.Jolene’s Story
- The Beta
- Nepal
- Grand Teton
- Audition
- Experiential Education
- Standard of Judgment
- Summary
- Chapter 4.The Mountain
- The Cliffhanger
- Preparation and Practice
- Guide Your Own Interest
- Alpine Start
- The Teenage Mountaineers
- Willi’s Toes
- Trip Leader
- Summary
- Chapter 5.College Spring Break
- The Goal
- Practice Climb
- Crevasse Rescue Training
- Up the Mountain
- What Goes Up Must Come Down
- 40 Years… and Back
- Summary
- Chapter 6.Planning, Preparation, and Practice
- Guiding Yourself
- Climbing Mount Rainier
- Planning and Preparation
- Visit the Park
- Physical Preparation
- Practice
- Keep Learning
- Transferring Perspective
- Summary
- Chapter 7.Mastering the Craft
- Deliberate Practice
- Nathaniel Bowditch
- Navigation
- John Harrison
- Extending the Craft
- Summary
Surviving Spring Break on the Mountain: The Power of Experiential Education
Book Three of "Unexpected History"
What if surviving Big Tech’s power imbalance requires the same mindset as surviving a blizzard on Mount Rainier, or resisting indoctrination as a POW? Surviving Spring Break on the Mountain: The Power of Experiential Education weaves together SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) lessons, software ethics, climbing expeditions, and centuries‑old navigation wisdom to show how you can stay principled, sharp, and intact when the system around you isn’t. Through gripping real‑world stories and hard‑earned insight, this book gives you a practical path to doing what’s right, and helping others do the same.
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Surviving Spring Break on the Mountain: The Power of Experiential Education blends high‑stakes mountaineering, military SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) lessons, ethical challenges in Big Tech, and the craft of software development into a single, practical framework for navigating power imbalance. Through vivid stories, from POW training to winter ascents of Mount Rainier to the legacy of Nathaniel Bowditch, you learn how to develop judgment, resist disinformation, remain intact under pressure, and grow into a trustworthy practitioner who helps others rise with you. This is a book about skill, ethics, resilience, and mastering your craft through experience, clarity, and courage.
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Edward W. Barnard
Edward W. Barnard brings unique implementation expertise from programming Cray supercomputers at the hardware level, debugging systems at classified facilities, and solving critical Y2K infrastructure problems. His 20+ years at Cray Research included hands-on work with assembly language, operating systems, and I/O subsystems. He has published over 100 technical articles, helping developers implement solutions to complex problems. His cross-domain experience, from NSA troubleshooting to Saudi Aramco installations, provides practical insights into applying advanced problem-solving techniques across diverse technical environments.
Edward has transferred his skill of bare-metal programming the Cray I/O Subsystem (with only 131,072 bytes of local memory) to novel ways of managing Large Language Model token context windows, unlocking capabilities not yet taught in AI literature. When a skill dormant for 35 years becomes suddenly relevant again, he calls this The Time Travel Pattern.
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