They say that if something’s worth doing, then it’s worth doing well. But it has also been said that: If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly. I couldn’t agree more. I think of this when I surf because I am a mediocre surfer. It will take a long time to become as good as …
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Free secrets
What they don’t tell you. My wife grew up working in her family’s cafe and they made hash browns and I love hash browns but they never taste like the restaurant’s hash browns and I asked her how they made them and she said they parboiled the potatoes the day before, then put them in …
Focus
Once the glass of a car windshield is cracked, it’s very hard to stop the crack from continuing to grow longer because the crack has somewhere to go. It’s focused. The way they fix this is to drill a small circular hole at the end of the crack, so that it loses its focus and …
It’s not truly quiet until the refrigerator stops humming.
I’ve caught myself thinking it was perfectly quiet in my house only to hear the refrigerator stop humming and then I think, “Ah, now it’s perfectly quiet.” I’ve also thought that the air inside my house was a perfectly fine quality until I went outside and smelled the noticeably better quality fresh air. Keep wandering …
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Task completion
I heard a story of an Army general giving a talk and he said, “Why do you think we make them make their beds?” and the answer was, “Task completion.” I think the takeaway was supposed to be that there is some value in completing a task, no matter what the task was. That it …
Feed the baby, not the beast
Sometimes you have two things of different sizes and you feed the big thing more than the smaller thing, because it’s bigger. But what if the reason the small thing is smaller is that you’re not feeding it as much? Sometimes it makes sense to feed the small thing more than you think it needs, …
Baked fresh daily
Baked fresh daily means someone is baking every day. It doesn’t mean that the loaf of bread you just bought was baked today necessarily but it does mean that someone’s baking every day. I’ve been posting to this blog every day, but I haven’t been writing every day. And I think that I might be …
Make it work
When I attempt things, I sometimes wonder to myself, “Will this work?” I’ve noticed that other people take a stronger approach—they say, “This is going to work. I’m going to make this work. I’m not going to let this fail.” They seem like good people to hang around and learn from. “Do. Or do not. …
You’ll have something to say
When I studied philosophy, I used to be afraid that I would read all of the background literature, understand it, and then have nothing to say. Nothing to add except, “I agree with that person who disagrees with that other person.” But as I kept reading philosophy, I found that this was almost never the …
Run through the cramps
It’s been 2 months now since I started writing for this blog everyday and I want to quit. It feels too early to quit, though. It reminds me of when I go running and start to get some light cramps in my stomach—if I keep running, they just go away. Keep running.