Posts
Thoughts, ideas, and occasional breakthroughs…
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Do nothing
Blog ·Everywhere you look, you can see people with their heads down. You see their craned necks and their thumb swiping.
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Let's talk about stress
Blog ·Stress is all around you. It is everywhere, it will always be present, and there is nothing that you can do about it. But let’s be clear: how you respond to stress is absolutely in your control.
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Podcast Review: The History of Byzantium
Review, Podcast ·Alright, I love history. I love everything about it. It applies so much to our lives. I spent a lot of time listening to the History of Rome podcast and wrote about it.
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During the quest for progress, we need to remain benevolent
Blog ·We learn history, but we do not necessarily learn from history. We always think that this time is different; with different people, circumstances, incentives, etc. But, we really are not all that different than our ancestors who walked several thousand years before us. Humans are still - and will always be - humans.
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Voting should be a Holiday
Blog ·It just doesn’t make sense. We get days off for dead presidents, a badass civil rights leader, honoring our Veterans, our independence, labor rights, when an explorer showed up to the Americas, time to gives thanks (read: eat turkey), and the birth of a major religious figure. But, we don’t celebrate the most concrete foundation of democracy; voting.