Our lives contain more possibilities than I we are prepared for – both in terms of the the circumstances we are faced with and the opportunities for how we react. There is the “normal” way to take on life. But no one is actually normal – we are all weird, in our own way. In… Read more

I think I can boil down the goal of this blog to this quote: We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. It’s attributed to a Greek philosopher named Archilochus. But it’s been interpreted in different ways. Recently, I heard it stated: You do not rise… Read more

The only way to make meaningful difference in the world is to have a hard deadline to work toward. But a deadline on it’s own isn’t enough – you also need to feel bad about letting someone down if you miss the deadline. Maybe with enough practice, we can get good enough to set our… Read more

At many times in my life, I find myself realizing that I probably could have prevented something bad from happening if I’d had a better understanding of what I was doing. My mission is to try and find ways to help other people avoid the negative outcomes I faced.