I watched a few Youtube clips last night and they hit on some themes that I’ve touched on previously here. If you have the time, watch them:

What the speaker is discussing is the ongoing way we live our lives and contemplate them, day in and day out. David Foster Wallace wrote [...]

I try to stay away from this, under normal circumstances. This is a post of a repost, from a site I’ve been reading called Brain Pickings. It’s really eclectic and I’ve read a good amount about writers and things that I’m particularly interested in. If you like writing and literature, you should [...]

The title of this is NOT a shot at working a lot or some sort of complaint about how work/life balance is needed etc.  This has been an incredibly busy week with 11 hour days, running and reading “Guns, Germs and Steel” in off time, so I’d be right in my element to start whining, [...]

Time is going faster than it used to.  Not literally, but in a sense, it really is.  What is time but a conception of your mind and if it seems to be going faster, isn’t perception reality?  Quantum physicists would probably refute me and by all means be correct, but what are quantum physicists, really? [...]

“This isn’t the way it should work!”
Never ceases to surprise me how often organizations of all kinds don’t really operate the way they “should.”  In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever worked for a company or went to a school or played on a team that truly operated as everyone thought it should.
Two things here.
The [...]

There is something to be said for honing and refining a piece of work to the point of near perfection.  (Perfection carries with it an imitable weight and to some degree doesn’t really exist, as an artist you can continually tweak the details, but main themes aren’t nearly so maleable.)  And that some thing may [...]

When we are adolescents, we often spend our time trying to act like everyone else and be part of the crowd.
We spend a lot of time thinking “How can I be like those people?”
Then as we get older, we often find more confidence and become happy with who we are and what we’ve become.
In fact, [...]

…when they think it’s the truth.
There are a select few who would do that when they know it isn’t.  There are more who would do it when they aren’t sure but want to be right.  Then there are those who wouldn’t take the chance.
Marketers are all of these.
Which kind are you?  Chances are that it [...]

I’ve met quite a few people in the last few years who are what I’d consider headstrong. Although this adjective can often be associated with poor connotations for being bossy or difficult to deal with, I mean it as a complement for the most part. There are far more people who won’t stand [...]