General

Reading Time: 2 min Even as the population of the world continues to increase, it seems likely that car production will never be this high again. In fact, annual car production peaked in 2017 and is already in a slow decline. There are a lot of factors behind this, but ride-sharing and urban growth (and related public transit) are […]

Reading Time: < 1 min It’s well-known that many celebrities have some strange demands when they’re traveling, but a story that has gone around for years is that Van Halen always requested a bowl of M&Ms in their room, with all of the brown ones removed. What a strange request! Except it wasn’t. They had a specific and creative reason […]

Reading Time: < 1 min As the world moves toward more electric vehicles, one big change is coming that many haven’t considered — cities will be getting quieter. As the “Not Just Bikes” YouTube channel says, “Cities aren’t loud; cars are loud“. They produced an excellent video that unpacks that, which can be seen here: The big thing it make […]

Reading Time: 2 min I was listening to a podcast recently where they discussed how we all have various “chapters” in our lives, often only seen when looking back on them. I thought it’d be interesting to see how mine shake out so far. I thought they might be tied to each time I’ve moved, and that’s certainly a […]

Reading Time: 2 min 28,687 days. That’s how long the average US citizen will live, around 78.5 years. Given the chaos of our world today, that number can be quite important. There’s a lot of inspirational things you can do with that, but we’ll be more practical today. Given an even distribution, that means that 1 out of every […]

Reading Time: < 1 min This past Saturday, a video started going viral that seemed to very clearly show a police officer planting drugs in a car. While the video stops abruptly, it seems to be clear what’s going on, and it looked really bad. While the video was getting passed around quite a bit and outrage was beginning to […]

Reading Time: < 1 min When you’re working on something, you have two choices: do it right, or take time later to explain why it was done incorrectly. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said: It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. This came to mind when reading a recent post from […]

Reading Time: < 1 min This morning I’m heading out to run the Peachtree Road Race 10K for the sixth time, though my first since 2015. If memory serves, I’ve run it in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and now this year. However, this one will be a quite a bit different due to COVID restrictions. Among other tweaks, the […]

Reading Time: < 1 min I recently finished the book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind“, and I’ll likely share a few things from it in the coming weeks. It was an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. Near the end, the author talked a lot about happiness, and how most things generally only make us more (or less) […]

Reading Time: 2 min It’s easy to think that we control all of our own decisions, and to a large extent we do, but it can also be crazy to see how things like sea levels 100 million years ago have a direct impact on elections today. Take the 2020 election results in Alabama, that looked something like this: […]