I’m finding it easy to be bogged down by the shit show of the world. And while all that is certainly a significant and vitally important part of our daily experience, it’s not everything. Not everything is shit. Not everyone is a shithead. Not everything is going to

So in the course of my not-writing blog posts, my wife and I decided to host a foreign exchange student. This is something we had talked about for a long time, but life always seemed to get in the way of our actually doing of it. We’ve realized, however,

Sometimes you hold onto something from pure, unexamined momentum and thus limit your ability to function and engage with others as you’d like. That’s been the case with me and blogging these past months. I had an idea I wanted to develop into a series of posts, didn’

It seems that we are awash in outrage these days, and righteous indignation. I am not immune to this. I often grapple with how best to engage when there are wrongs that I see, and harms being done, especially that will affect my kids. I believe that we have an

I recently finished the book Elastic by Leonard Mlodinow. The concept that he primarily covered reminded me a lot of Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, with some new statistics to back it up. To grossly oversimplify, my takeaways were: * We should take care of ourselves * We should take

I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of a "Calling", or even pursuing one's passion as a guiding principle. In Office Space there's a scene where Peter suggests he works at his thankless job because he never had a passion

Like many people I've read and thought a lot about Zoom fatigue over the past year. It's a real thing. Zoom fatigue, along with my general impatience with long or desultory meetings means that I'm always keen to keep meetings very short, targeted and