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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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 …
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 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 …
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. …
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 …
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.
I think I’m an entrepreneur. I’m not saying that just because I’m building a business and have things for sale, I’m saying that because I think that that’s what I am, in my nature. I think I do my best work as an independent business person rather than as part of an established business. This …
The first time I went down a black diamond (advanced) ski run, I was scared and kept falling because it was steeper than what I was comfortable with. But I’m glad I went because it was more difficult and it made me learn things that I didn’t have to learn going down intermediate runs. I …
My cousin is better at skiing than I am at snowboarding and one day he wanted to go down a black diamond (advanced) ski run after we had gone down a few blue (intermediate) runs. I said, “I’ve never been down a black diamond before,” thinking that I was implying that I wasn’t going to …
