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Reading Time: < 1 min Facing a challenge is rarely a fun thing to do, but it’s also the place where you can grow the most. By seeing where your shortcomings are, it gives you a much better picture of where you need to put in the work. For example, Michael Jordan failed to make the varsity basketball team during […]

Reading Time: 2 min This quote came up in my notes a few days ago, and it felt similar to a post I had recently written about how infinite numbers don’t include everything. If you have a system that generates random output, there is no guarantee that the results will be perfectly distributed. If you output something random 1,000,000 […]

Reading Time: < 1 min Over the past few decades, marketers of all kinds have been fighting for our attention. Like I said last year, your attention is the product that companies are purchasing. As a whole, sadly, they’re winning. These days, your focus shouldn’t necessarily be on gaining the attention of others, but rather fighting to get your own […]

Reading Time: < 1 min I thought this was a fascinating bit of a thought experiment. I was reading a thread where people we debating the idea of a “multiverse”, the idea that our universe is just one of an infinite number of universes out there, thus explaining how life could be possible. Whether you believe that theory or not, […]

Reading Time: 3 min 20 years ago today, the local paper in Midland, MI (where I had gone to high school and stayed for a few years after) ran an excellent article about my grandparent’s story. They literally “Lived on Love Street”. Here is what they published on February 13, 2002. He walks through the entrance to the living […]

Reading Time: < 1 min It’s been interesting to see over the past few years how people often splinter into two main groups — those that are “loud & proud” with their beliefs, and those that have logic and reason for theirs. Either can be good, but a combination of the two might be best. English poet William Shenstone put […]

Reading Time: 2 min There are times when I find a short, interesting video that has too many things to notice in one sitting. Here are two fun examples of that; neither is very new, but they’re both very entertaining. Softball In this video, the team at bat is in the final inning, two outs, down by two. They […]

Reading Time: 2 min As you go through your day, various ideas pop into your head. If they’re solid, holding onto them doesn’t do you any good. Get them out of your head as soon as you can, for two reasons: First, it’s a waste of head space to hold onto them. Toss your ideas into your disposable notes […]

Reading Time: < 1 min The internet has done so much good for almost all of us, but one bad thing it’s done is that it’s taken away our boredom. Years ago, there were times when there was just literally nothing to do. That could be annoying, and it frequently was, but that also can lead to great insights. In […]

Reading Time: 2 min Every January first (well, starting last year) I like to look at some numbers and stats from the previous year. Content This year I wrote exactly 365 posts — one per day. I had my doubts about whether I could do it or not, but I’ve stayed solid on that. I cleaned out a lot […]