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Reading Time: 2 minI’m a big believer in focusing on processes over results. We all certainly want to have positive results from our efforts, but the focus should be on the process behind the effort and not on the final outcome. Last week I was playing a round of golf, and on the last hole I was at […]

Reading Time: < 1 minMany people pine for the “good old days”, but those days seem to be in a different decade depending on who is saying it. Kevin Kelly explains why in his book “Excellent Advice for Living“. He says: When someone tells you about the peak year of human history the period of time when things were […]

Reading Time: < 1 minIt can be interesting to think of ourselves as two people, and we often do it without realizing it. I’ve shared before how I often use that to my advantage by having the “other” Mickey deal with certain things. It’s a slippery slope, as if you put too much on your “other” self then you’re […]

Reading Time: < 1 minA few of the posts I’ve shared in the last week came to me at nearly the same time, even though they weren’t related. The time? When I was just messing around one evening playing “Best Fiends” on my tablet. I let my mind wander, and it found a few connections that I didn’t realize […]

Reading Time: 2 minWhen you try to categorize the “best” of anything, whether it’s a car, book, or actor, there is going to be disagreement. For example, right now I think the Pixel Fold is the best phone you can own. Most of you reading this probably disagree with me and say that the iPhone or one of […]

Reading Time: 2 minYears ago, I had a Motorola phone that came with a windshield mount that you could use for navigation. This was in the very early days of Google Maps having that support, and the mount held the phone in a landscape position, presumably to resemble GPS units of the time. When I got my next […]

Reading Time: 2 minThere’s a weird psychological phenomenon where humans are willing to do things for free (“social norms”) but may turn away if you try to pay them for it (“market norms”). One of the most famous examples of that was Uri Gneezy’s story of the Israeli daycare center. You can read more about it from this […]

Reading Time: < 1 minBoundaries can feel like a hinderance, and they often are, but they can bring freedom with them if you see the in the right light. Last year I shared about the show “The 100”, and how I wished they had stayed inside of their initial boundaries instead of veering off into strange and unbelievable scenarios. […]

Reading Time: 3 minFor years, I’ve noticed an issue that arises when something comes along that can save many lives, but may cost a few in the process. Here are two examples. When self-driving cars become the norm, we’ll likely save 30,000 lives per year that would have otherwise died in car accidents. However, it’s also likely the […]

Reading Time: 2 minHow much time do you need to work in order to have light in your house for one hour? It’s not something I’ve really thought about before, but a long quote from the book “Enlightenment Now” put it in very interesting terms. “A Babylonian in 1750 BCE would have had to labor fifty hours to […]