The Blog
Time, Money, and Knowledge: The Modern Resources
We live in such a wonderful time of history. We can buy, build, and learn just about anything. That wasn’t always the case. Think about a parallel you in the Bronze Age. A past you that has NEVER seen metal before. If you wanted to create something, you had to do it...
People are Not Their Politics
People are complicated. Politics are too. It's hard to fully understand how someone gains their political beliefs with the incredible amount of influences of modern life. The foundation, though, starts with how someone grows up. A person’s community and the views of...
Stress
The pandemic has brought stress to the forefront. Parts of life that seemed effortless now have a weight to them. It’s strange to calculate the risk of seeing family or mentally checking your six-foot perimeter during a grocery run. A year has gone by and these simple...
Input to Output Ratio
The rise of the information age has given a limitless amount of knowledge to our fingertips. We can listen to the latest weather forecast, watch a how-to video, and check-in with our loved ones in a matter of seconds. It’s the first age in human history where we can...
Peace in Quiet
It was strange to see an ancient practice emerge as a fad. References of meditation can be dated as far back as 5,000 BCE yet most of us have not tried the practice until the launch of Headspace. Why? I have no idea. It is impossible to point to any singular cause of...
Questions
When was the last time you asked a great question? One of those questions that makes the recipient pause and think. One instance, where I was the recipient of the question, comes to mind. I was staying with a quirky Frenchman in Bordeaux when he revealed some...
Switching Switches
For years, I had my light switches backwards. The switch on the right would turn on the hallway to the left and the switch on the left would turn on the kitchen to the right. I got used to it; even though it was wrong. This annoyed all of my guests. “Why are your...
Now What?
Last year I was so confident and naive. I had returned from my travels and was ready to take the world for my own. Life is funny in that way. It tends to build us up only to crack our foundation. We all know what happened in 2020 so there is no use rehashing. We lost...