Stephen Colbert fights the closeminded
I don’t watch either that often, but while I do prefer the Daily show to Colbert, the later is…
Category: Philosophy
How to keep your mouth shut
I have a disorder of a kind known as “can not keep my mouth shut.” If I think someone…
The new serendipity?
One old argument in the history of tech progress is the tragic loss of a side effect of an…
Hating vs. Loving: a personal note
A book that changed my life in 2002 is Living, Loving and Learning, by Leo Buscaglia, which taught my…
Quote of the Month: Use the difficulty
“I was rehearsing a play, and there was a scene that went on before me, then I had to…
Crap detection 101 and social media
Howard Rheingold wrote an interesting essay called Crap Detection 101, which provides both commentary on how to separate fact…
Travel: Any Brussels or Oslo advice?
I have a few days of fun travel to new places coming up. If anyone has been to Brussels,…
Being Popular vs. Being Good
“Plenty of what’s popular isn’t good, and plenty of what’s good isn’t popular” One of the grand confusions of…
Your project has no goal
There’s a fantastic little essay over on Noop.Nl about some clever philosophical questions about what projects are. The essay…
Nietzsche’s mustache
Does this even need an explanation? Forget his philosophies, I’m just intimidated by his facial hair.
Failure: the secret to success (Honda & race cars)
Nice little video on failure and its role in success. It’s vaguely an advertisement for Honda, but its very…
New essay: How to be a free thinker
Are you free? I know I’m not. That’s why I write essays about being free, to freely show how…
Why there will always be pyramid schemes
A curiosity of the coverage of the $50 billion Madoff scandal was the sense of shock and surprise that professional…
Book review: Walden, by Thoreau
Some books are referenced so often that eventually you just have to go and read them, just so you…
Quote of the month
I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No…
Your quota of worry and how to shrink it
Sometimes I think we all have a worrying quota. An amount of worry we feel compelling to apply to…
The books of ignorance
I love wandering used bookstores, as there is always a magic tome back there, lying in waiting under layers…
How do you grow willpower?
Interesting article in the NYT on the way willpower works (Found at kottke). I can’t say the article itself…
Lessons from 4 independent years
In 2003 I quit my management job at Microsoft to try to live by writing books, teaching and public…
Innovation vs. Tradition: Christianity, the Vatican and Sin
This is one of the greatest stories of innovation and change I’ve heard about in some time. Note: although…