I just work here
Jersey Mike's assembly line—Going above and beyond—Gawande's impact Modern Times (1936) starring Charlie Chaplin The Assembly Line A few...
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- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
Don't be a donkey
Buridan's donkey—Life as a series of experiments—The teleological fallacy Buridan's Overthinking Donkey Have you heard the parable of...
- May 14, 2021
- 4 min
I'm too good for this
Being the Weak Link—The Superiority Trap—Learning Pirahã Nil Nil I recently joined a recreation soccer league that plays out of Penn Park...
- Apr 30, 2021
- 4 min
Overcoming the resistance to embrace challenges
Why Superman got boring—The importance of challenges—the Resistance Superman By the 1980’s, Superman literally could do anything:...
- Apr 17, 2021
- 5 min
Doing more with less choice
Me crossing the 2018 Philadelphia Marathon finish line The Path Forward Back in the summer of 2018, I was living in Northern Virginia and...
- Mar 31, 2021
- 5 min
How to enjoy solitude
"I'm not alone 'cause the TV's on, yeah." —"Bleed American", Jimmy Eat World * In my last note, I wrote about why it’s important for...
- Mar 16, 2021
- 4 min
We can't live...with or without them
March 16th, 2021 Chip Heron: Hey, how was school? Cady: Fine. Betsy Heron: Were people nice? Cady: No. Chip Heron: Did you make any...
- Mar 2, 2021
- 5 min
Pursuing abnormality
March 2nd, 2021 An Average Article There is a term in Swedish called lagom. It means “just the right amount.” Spotify CEO and Swede...
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
Do you have the right amount of stress?
February 16th, 2021 Entrepreneur and thinker Naval Ravikant recently wrote on Twitter: "Imagine how effective you would be if you weren’t...
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- Feb 2, 2021
- 4 min
How to have [more] good ideas
February 2nd, 2021 A Useful Shower Thought In 1990, NASA engineer James H. Cocker was paying a visit to a European Space Agency team to...
- Jan 24, 2021
- 5 min
We've all got light and dark within us
Harry Potter: This connection between me and Voldemort... what if the reason for it is that I am becoming more like him? I just feel so...
- Dec 13, 2020
- 4 min
How to Escape a Pandemic
"Socrates was told that some man had not been improved by travel. 'I am sure he was not,' he said. 'He went with himself." – Michel de...
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