Author: Tynan
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Accessible Art: Japanese Woodblock Prints
During a six hour layover in Honolulu, my friend Brian and I went to the Honolulu Museum of Art. The museum is really cool and worth a visit for just about anyone passing through the city. They have the standard sort of stuff, but I was most impressed with their Asian collection. In particular, the…
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The Two Year Writing Challenge is Over
I can tell you one thing: I’m definitely not writing a blog post tomorrow. Two years ago I agreed to be accountable to a friend for writing a blog post every single day for two years. If I failed to do it, I would have to pay $10,000. I could skip once per month and…
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Don’t Be Offended
My friend Sebastian has a great way of asking simple questions that create good discussions. We were talking about someone getting offended at something and he asked the not-quite-rhetorical question: why do people get offended? You and I, he said, never get offended. Being offended seems to have become a national, if not international, pastime.…
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The Thin Line Between Obligation and Opportunity
I’ve been really excited to work on Cruise Sheet recently. I’ve made some big strides and am now an actual cruise agency rather than a web site that creates affiliate links. It’s still fairly similar, but now I can control the experience the whole way through and the increase in revenue makes it look more…
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Every Day is Christmas
I remember waking up as a kid on Christmas, heavy with anticipation. Waking up early never came naturally to me, but usually I was up before seven in the morning. It wasn’t just that good things were about to happen to me, it was that those good things were also surprises. As I woke up…
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Contrarian Thinking
I live a little bit in the ghetto. It doesn’t feel dangerous, I like my neighbors, and the location is perfect, but in Las Vegas this is known as a terrible area. Even after being pleasantly surprised at how nice it was when I saw the place (I bought it sight unseen), I was worried…
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Arbitrary Rules
February and March I’m going to spend half in San Francisco and half in Vegas. So I’m buying a bunch of cheap tickets to ping-pong back and forth between the two cities. As I booked these flights I thought about how it became “a thing”. Two months, two cities, back and forth. Those two months…
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Back to Bare Metal
It’s been a crazy few years. I was going to say few weeks, then few months, and then I thought about it and realized that there’s no reasonable starting point more recent than a few years ago. Since then I’ve been traveling non-stop and have had very little stability. If you rarely travel, you might…
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The Upside to Generosity
Today we went to a gelato place called Gelatology. The owner, Desyree, used to have a place called Art of the Flavor, which was shut down under suspicious circumstances. From outward appearances it seemed as though the landlords kicked her out and then continued a business under the same name. I was excited to take…
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Sure Enough to Plant Evidence
I’m almost done watching Making of A Murderer. I don’t know how it ends yet, but it’s not much of a spoiler to say that it opens with a story about a guy, Steven Avery, who was wrongly accused of rape and served eighteen years for it. The evidence was only a shade more substantial…