Self Improvment* • part 1

You ever have that nightmare?

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Efficiency vs. Effectiveness

Self Improvment* • part 2

“Lo, what light through yonder window breaks?”

“You talkin’ to me?”

“It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.”

“You talkin’ to me?”

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,”

Sex. Intimacy. Love.

Light topic for today, eh?

No, it’s not a new name for the website (though I’d probably get more hits…wonder if SexIntimacyLove.com is available?). Rather, it’s a challenge for the weekend — which, of course, I hope is filled with all three — for you to pay…

Self Improvment • part 3

There are two kinds of people: those who view life as a dichotomy, and everybody else.

Ok, all joking aside, let’s put this another way: there are two very prevalent ways of looking at life. In one, life happens to you, you are carried along by a series of…

Needs, Wants, Desires

A simple concept to take you into your lovely weekend: let’s talk about the core elements of what go into your relationship with what you love. Much like before, I’m not talking about a person (unless I am, as you read this) or a vocation (unless it applies) or anything except that which…

The Pygmalion Love Fallacy

There are some myths that are so prevalent that they get re-shaped and re-told over and over again. Pygmalion is one of those, in every form from Disney cartoons to classic plays by George Bernard Shaw to one of the most beloved of misogynistic musicals, My Fair Lady.

Philosophy of Life

One of the reasons I love plane travel is because there’s about fifteen minutes to half an hour between takeoff and reaching 10,000 feet when they won’t let me be productive.

My tray table has to be up; my phone has to be off; I can’t have my laptop open. I can (and…

Focus Better with Minimalist Tech

Avoiding the Mall of the Mind

For today I thought we’d get away from the serious and the dark and the thoughtful and talk a little pragmatica. Specifically, in my own attempts to get off the Gravy Hose of social media, I’ve…