When people ask me the question, “What do you do?” sometimes I jokingly answer that “I’m in sales.”
Taken literally, that’s not true. I do quite a few different things through my company ReasonIO, but selling products or service is not actually among my many roles. Neither is marketing, for…
Two of the most centrally important and massively influential heavy metal bands were Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. After devoting our first Classic Metal Class session to a range of bands from the early 1970s— including UFO, Uriah Heep, Sir Lord Baltimore, Budgie, Flower Travellin’ Band, and Blue Oyster Cult…
On The Shortness Of Life contains one of the most often-quoted passages by Seneca. It has to do with time. I’m sure you’ve seen people posting it in social media or even dropping it in conversation (often without saying what text it is from, and sometimes without even attributing it…
here are curated lists of videos on key Stoic texts, thinkers, and topics
Since 2002, I have been teaching about Stoicism, at first just with students in my academic courses, then later on reaching a much wider range of people interested in Stoic philosophy and practice. …
About a year and a half back, me and my friend Scott Tarulli — professor of guitar at Berkelee School of Music — decided to start hosting more-or-less monthly classes delving into one of our favorite sets of topics to discuss: classic heavy metal music. …
Earthsea gets a bit darker and deeper in this fourth Earthsea novel, which is written almost two decades after the earlier trilogy — A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), and The Farthest Shore (1972). This fourth book in the series was originally to bring the saga…
Back in 2016, I flew down to Virginia Commonwealth University to give an invited talk to their Philosophy Club. The topic my host, the president of the club, wanted me to discuss is the question asked in the title. …
Fall classes are just coming to a close. This semester, one class I’ve been teaching at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design is called “Philosophy and Fantasy: Ursula K Leguin’s Earthsea”. …
You’ll notice that, at first, it looks like I’ve placed the quotation marks in the wrong places in the title of this entry. But, no. . . they’re set around just the right term — define. You’ll see, or rather read, why momentarily. First though, a bit of back-story.
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