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The Days Get Away
How do you plan your day…or is “planning” something akin to a foreign concept? One of my graduate professors referred to much of the day as “fighting alligators”. The strategy being you fight the one closest, the one about to kill you. It was his tongue-in-cheek way of talking about damage control, managing chaos –…
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“Welcome to The Gulag”
On a whiteboard in a library with no books, this is written. “Welcome to the Gulag” One passes by with a second glance, a chuckle, and on they stroll, oblivious to the meaning. The library is the grinder, eating up doubt. Chipping away imposter syndrome one “I don’t know how…” at a time. Here one…
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Fake Island, Real Life
Over six months ago, a brilliant billionaire entrepreneur made a bold move. Balaji Srinivasan released his manifesto, unveiled his flag, declared The Network State inevitable and The Network School open for business. Here’s the gist: Our world is undergoing a seismic shift. Just as the printing press broke the church’s grip on information, the internet…
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Suicide by Screen
I read this somewhere, and now can’t find the source. Suffice to say, the insight is not my own. “The process of aging is an increasing desire for comfort and convenience.” For the sake of argument, let’s assume this to be true. What does it say about our current condition? I would argue the general…
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Where Does This Go?
Press pause. Zoom out. Now look around. At your room. Your home. The garage. The town you live in or near. What do you see? I’ve spent nearly three years traveling. Texas, Arizona, Missouri, Washington, New York City, Kansas City, the Andes Mountains of southern Colombia. Morocco – Casa Blanca & Marrakech. You begin to…
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The “Poor Bastard” Rule
You may be familiar with the Hatfields and McCoys. If not, let me recap: two families in Kentucky got into a pissing match that started during the American Civil War and lasted, in one way or another, until a signed truce in 2003. On a state FFA officer trip to Europe in 2003, I found…
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#23 mark manson/Lori Gottlieb podcast notes
Original video: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Mental Health (ft. Lori Gottlieb) – Mark Manson podcast Therapy happens outside the therapy session. You go to dance class not to learn how to dance, but to be a dancer. If you’re not dancing outside of class, you’re not a dancer. Therapy: most people come to therapy…
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#22 Kintsugi: The ARt of the Golden REdneck
This is kintsugi. A broken piece of pottery is repaired by welding the pieces back together. With gold. The artistic form of repair is brought to you by the island nation of Japan. Just Humpy Dumpty had taken his great fall there. That boy would be blinged-out now. Get a little kintsugi in ya, all…
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#21 The ride
Instantly awkward, my hands found surprisingly soft purchase on the love handles of a grinning Colombian whose demeanor implied such an interaction was part and parcel of a standard Thursday. This was my first occasion to explore past the roadside eatery whose cheese-filled arepas are the only thing keeping my weight anywhere near an American…
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# 20 The Man’s Prayer
“I’m a man. But I can change. If I have to. I guess.” Red Green – “The Man’s Prayer” I’ve been thinking about the power of those few words. Creator Steve Smith’s alter-ego Red Green lived this, and so many other pithy bits of wisdom throughout 300 episodes. If you aren’t familiar, Red Green was…