The Fucking Instructions
Are you a person that reads the instructions? Yes? Oh... There is a stigma in American culture around being the person that reads the instructions. You're...
Motivation is a red herring
Action begets motivation not the other way around. Don’t wait for it. Do less if you need. But do.
Reference Preference
I read an Atlantic article where economists on two sides of a debate both reference the same paper and claim the other side is reading it wrong. How often do...
Utopia
Progress is the realization of utopia. — Oscar Wilde Use that today if you can in the most positive way.
Quenched Disorder
Millions of years ago a staggeringly complex system (post-ice-age Earth) began warming. After a very long time, probabilities collapsed: continents and...
The Dragon Ahead
2024: the year of The Dragon. What is your definition of Luck? Can you exploit it starting in the new year? How? Take 30 seconds to think on it. May the new...
Leaders and Ambiguity
Candidate is comfortable with ambiguity and can work independently. Nope, Sorry. The thing about ambiguity is, at a certain level, no matter how ambiguous or...
A Mine Before Gold
We crave machinery because it is order incarnate: it is well-defined and the thing it makes is well-defined. There's no mess. But sometimes we have to make a...
A Certain Slant of Light
Working outside just now I noticed how the winter sun is different somehow. It reminded me a lot of the titular Emily Dickinson poem I read several winters...
Talent
Scholars seem to think talent is innate. But that's weird, right? It doesn't matter how I am talented; I either am or I am not. Another common angle is the...
"Love After Love"
From an article by Maria Popova @ The Marginalian, which I recommend. This has something happy and mournful about it, LOVE AFTER LOVE by Derek Walcott The...