Throughout our lives we are going to put ourselves up as a candidate for selection. We are going to hope that some person or organization will select us. Sometimes we will be selected and other times we will not. It can be disappointing to not be selected. Some people equate not being selected as failure; as some shortcoming in their c...

I'm trying to read more fiction because a great writer can reveal insight on the human condition or a universal truth about being human. Maybe that’s why Neil Gaiman says, "Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over." Here's a seemingly "true thing" that jumped out at me when I read "The Sound of Waves" by Yukio Mishima(...

It is easy to write a few shitty sentences. It much harder to write one great sentence. To write one great sentence, start with a few shitty sentences, every day, the rest of your life.

Task management tools are only as good as the person using them. If you don't use the tool, it's not going to work. I used to chase down different tools looking for new features or innovative implementations that will help me get organized and get more done. I've used Omnifocus and Todoist. I've gone full manual mode with a bullet jour...

Figuring out what your first post to a personal blog should be is hard. Well, here it is. Obstacle removed.