“ am an optimist to a fault. I say that life is better than it was. I see progress. I say that bad guys win too many battles but so far good guys tend to win the wars.”

I see you saying you are a pragmatist.

As far as “good guys” winning the wars, that is all perception. I’d say Native Americans were…

It’s the imperfect path that brings you somewhere.

After achieving something, do we ever look in the past and question ourselves that we can do better than that? How about before it, how much do we plan for perfections before execute it?

In The Real World

We live in the real world whether we like it or not

I am forgiving of those who are young and idealistic, not just from having been there and done that, but because I expect the combination of life experience and expanding wisdom will temper idealism with reality. But…

Past, present, future

A parable

Past Jamie is a moron. Past Jamie took a bunch of shortcuts, the net result of which is that the code Present Jamie is writing is an order of magnitude more complex than it needs to be. Present Jamie understands the need to pragmatically cut the…

Christianity, Karma, Santa Claus — Millennials are very spiritual. They don’t know it but as a group they follow the message of the late Reverend Ike:

Why wait for pie in the sky, bye and bye, when you can have it right now with ice cream on top?