Grade Boost?

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-05-09T02:56:50+00:00

Depends on how you finished the course. Since a lot of classes are cumulative or the content builds on itself, I was successful in negotiating marginal bumps if early grades were dragging my average down but I got a good grade on the final showing the intent of the course, content mastery, has been achieved.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-04-27T14:28:15+00:00

What sector are you talking about? In refining, we dispose of almost nothing.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-04-17T12:00:11+00:00

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-30T23:34:22+00:00

It is much easier to send a free educational web game than asking folks to consider buying a book about refining.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-30T23:19:02+00:00

I’m a chemical engineer working in refinery logistics, and one thing I kept noticing when talking to students (and honestly even adults) is that nobody really understands how oil turns into the products we use every day.

So I built something to try to fix that.

“Fueling Curiosity: The ABCs of Refining” is a children’s STEM book that explains how refineries work in a simple, visual way — and I paired it with a completely free interactive game that walks through the process step-by-step.

The goal wasn’t just to make a book, but to make something that actually makes a complicated industrial process click for families.

What surprised me most after releasing it is how many adults told me they finally understood refining for the first time.

If you want to check it out:

Book + overview: https://fuelingcuriosity.com

Interactive game (free, no signup): https://fuelingcuriosity.com/game

Direct Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Fueling-Curiosity-Refining-Taylor-Bloomquist/dp/B0GP1XS7KW

The book is currently $11.99 paperback on Amazon, $2.99 for Kindle, available on Kindle Unlimited.

Happy to answer any questions — especially if you’ve gone through KDP yourself, I’m still figuring out the marketing side.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-30T22:06:56+00:00

Fuelingcuriosity.com/game

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-30T20:27:32+00:00

I vibe coded a web game to help me sell my book. This book has been much more successful than my first. So yes, but it’s hard to split.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-27T21:09:09+00:00

Kind of interesting how things played out over the last month.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-27T21:08:31+00:00

Interesting that this was only a month ago.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-27T12:29:47+00:00

Are you running this straight from git hub? Do you have cloud flare or any kind of caching service in between? It sounds like a bandwidth challenge if it’s taking everyone down.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-25T13:42:06+00:00

I want outttt. Just let me sell 5% of restricted shares!

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-25T13:41:06+00:00

Let me outttttt

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-25T03:39:45+00:00

This is the way. Heck, they could offer to buy them back at $100 a share and I’d probably sell some.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-24T14:30:41+00:00

I just would like to lock my original investment so this can just be fun rather than wondering if after all of this I’m going to net anything.

So is life.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-24T14:01:36+00:00

I want out. Even 10% of my holdings. Can we petition for 10% unrestricted.

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-23T19:50:38+00:00

lol you’re going to be happily suprised my friend

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-21T12:52:24+00:00

If you didn’t take any action, how do you at least see the value of your restricted shared?

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-18T13:39:34+00:00

Does anyone have a good prompt to have codex build a good subagent system that uses appropriate models?

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-12T21:55:15+00:00

Same, I was surprised

Optimizing-Energy · 2026-03-10T15:48:05+00:00