Year: 2014
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Discounting Perspective with Time
My sister, who I’m immensely proud of, is launching a career as an interior designer. She studied it in school and rose quickly to the top at the firm that hired her right out of college. When it became clear that there was no room for growth there, she decided to find a job in…
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Turning Small Wins into Big Wins
Workwise, I had a bad Saturday. It was my first day back in the RV, away from family, and I had psyched myself up. The plan was to work the entire day and knock out a big Sett task, plus the little cruft that had been building up on my schedule. Very little of that…
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Self Improvement Demands an Outlet
I’m aware that everyone, including myself, is probably a little bit of a hypocrite. What irks me the most is when I do something, say wear a chain with my name on it, think it’s cool, and then see someone else do it and think it’s lame. So when I hang around self improvement fanatics…
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Living in Parallel Universes
I like the idea of parallel universes. There’s legitimate scientific research that says that there are infinite universes existing simultaneously in different dimensions, maybe even one for each possible outcome. So in some parallel universe, maybe I’m the king of Norway. It’s nice to think about, anyway. That theory may not be proven or disproven…
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The Value of a Throwaway
I have this rule for myself that if I say I’m going to do something, even if it’s only to myself, I do it. My overarching principle is to always to do the best I can, but sometimes my best is not very good. Maybe I’ve told myself I’m going to go to the gym,…
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Be The Best on Your Worst Day
My cousins, who are mostly younger girls, and I just finished watching season 18 of The Ultimate Fighter together. My brother is a big UFC fan and bought the pay-per-view fight last Christmas between, amongst other people, Ronda Rousey and Meisha Tate. That fight hooked all of us. A lot of the show is real-world…
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A Brief History on Nonsense
Once upon a time, hundreds of years ago, there existed a species called homo sapiens. They had an enormous amount of processing power, an excellent ability to match patterns, and a level of consciousness and self awareness that had never existed before. They understood many of the things they saw in the world, but others…
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How to Work When Others Don’t Want You To
A situation I run into frequently, including right now, is being around people who would prefer that I not work all the time. They understand what I’m doing and are supportive of it, but they will make short term decisions to avoid me working. In other words, I’m visiting my family and if I were…
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Tight and Aggressive
In poker there’s an ideal called “tight and aggressive”. The idea is to play a very small selection of hands, but to then play those hands very aggressively. You play a small selection because many hands are statistical underdogs no matter how well you play them. You’ll get lucky here and there, but in the…
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Seven Awesome Android Apps You Don’t Already Have Installed
As you might expect, I’m a huge Android fan. I think that what you can do with an Android phone is spectacular, especially a rooted one. There are still some big apps that make it to iOS first, but there are also a huge number of apps that only make it to Android because iOS…