I have a huge chip on my shoulder: I don’t like being told what to do or how to do it. Maybe there’s something wrong with me but I’ve always been that way. As a kid, forbidding me from doing something was tantamount to a challenge, like a great big[…] Read On
Read these five famous quotes and tell me if you can figure out what they all have in common: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein “I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a[…] Read On
I just listened to a Nerdist interview with Harrison Ford from a few years back. You’ve got to love the guy’s dry sense of humor, but there’s also some interesting stuff in there that I found, well, interesting. Here’s his take on the internet: Nerdist: Now there’s the internet, you[…] Read On
Yesterday must have been national bureaucrat day; I had to deal with the post office and the IRS on the same day. One was frustrating and time-consuming. The other was also terrifying. You can probably guess which one. Nearly two months after filing my tax return – which has been[…] Read On
“May you live in interesting times.” – Anon If you’re going to tweet controversial sociopolitical views, there is a chance that you’ll become famous. And if you do, there is a chance it may come back to haunt you at work. And if you then get into altercations at work,[…] Read On
Everyone wants to be successful so they get online and Google “how to be successful.” Guess what they find? Gazillions of listicles by losers in desperate need of clicks and attention who generate free content based on cheesy self-help books. If you read enough of that nonsense you’ll find all[…] Read On
Everyone tells me our education system is broken. Curious, I typed, “education system is …” into Google. The top suggestion to complete the search phrase was “broken.” The next four were “flawed,” “failing,” “bad” and “messed up.” Just as I suspected. I’m a big believer in Occam’s razor: all things[…] Read On