2023-01-31 03:37
My wife is snoring Where did I set my iPhone Evidence gathered
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2023-01-28 02:00
1. Relationships are all that last. Did you know that? 2. Now that’s a working dog. 3. If you are ever in doubt about how you should act: Smile. Be kind. And be yourself. 4. I mean, th… Read More
2023-01-27 02:00
The deeper I go into my “career” (🤣) – and the older I get – the more I understand this line about how a different level of interest is required. Can you star… Read More
2023-01-24 23:00
Where I Sit 24: In the truck, with Lubbock geese
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2023-01-24 02:00
The last French fry so Cold and limp and all of the Ketchup has been spent
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2023-01-21 02:00
1. Chips and salsa is happiness. 2. Don’t seek school, seek education. 3. I love Scottsdale, Arizona in January. 4. On the mountain high or in the valley low, The King of Love my Sheph… Read More
2023-01-20 02:00
Here’s the new song that the family can’t get out of our heads, King Of Love, By: I Am They. It’s weird how I even came to hear about the band though… See, I grew up… Read More
2023-01-19 02:00
What is the point of learning anyway? C.S. Lewis spoke about his at length… But can you imagine having the foresight and understanding to examine questions like this as a child? Good… Read More
2023-01-18 02:00
Instabooks 371: julia_palus
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2023-01-17 02:00
Dopamine drip on A dopamine hit, just one More sip of this drink
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2023-01-14 02:00
1. I have been either rich or oblivious my entire life. Because I have no idea what groceries cost. 2. Free time and a library card are all you need. 3. I wonder how much this trampoline par… Read More
2023-01-13 02:00
I have been thinking about this tweet all day: In business, you need some exposure to risk to be trusted. Good grief, I mean, the number of executive board members, CEO’s, mid-level ma… Read More
2023-01-12 02:00
The compulsion to read is not unlike a lot of other compulsions, I suppose. I mean, was going to say that the reading urge is more of a simple please than all the other addictions and desire… Read More
2023-01-11 02:00
Instabooks 370: 1000libraries
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2023-01-10 02:00
On the bench she sat With tea, Looking out of that Ridiculous hat
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2023-01-07 02:00
1. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of having relationships that make you feel safe. 2. The occasional all-nighter. 🔥 3. I am amazed at the number of people that hang their w… Read More
2023-01-06 02:00
When I was younger, I loved now and again having stayed up all night. There was some kind of electricity in the air if you did it with your friends too, and a calm, as the dawn approached. O… Read More
2023-01-05 02:00
I should have jumped into the later internet mania – the early blogging mania – of 2004-2008. Should have started blogging then instead of worrying about how to go back to grad s… Read More
2023-01-04 02:00
I can’t say that I have been to Tenderloin, San Francisco – but I am unsure. I think I have driven right past it, or thru it without realizing it when I spent a day in SF some ye… Read More
2023-01-03 02:00
I believe in God And that all this is a pause For it’s all too short
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2022-12-29 02:00
Ok, I want to do an extensive post on this idea of selling popcorn at some point. I’m blogging through books I have read and all, but there are hundreds of books I read before I starte… Read More
2022-12-28 02:00
Instabooks 369: ancientlibraries
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2022-12-27 02:00
Cold upstairs bedroom Solemn week with my parents Emotions consume
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2022-12-24 02:00
1. I wish I were better at conflict, especially at work. But I mostly just avoid it. 2. Cookies-and-cream is the best ice cream – period. You gotta give him that. 3. Without health, th… Read More
2022-12-23 02:00
It sounds like something I would do to handle a serious interview and break the ice too… (…were I the richest person in the world. 🤷♂️) But are there… Read More
2022-12-22 02:00
Instabooks 368: durstonsaylor
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2022-12-21 02:00
The gift of having resolve – the talent of developing resolve – is a gift I would love to give my kids. Luck plays a larger role than most of us would like… But there are… Read More
2022-12-20 02:00
Christmas lights blink Over a nation that won’t Philosophy think
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2022-12-16 23:00
1. So the government is totally trash. Is that what you got from Dec 2022 as well? (I’ve known it since I was in college.) 2. He was half of what I liked in college football. Ugh. 3. I… Read More
2022-12-16 02:00
Instabooks 367: pvdath
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2022-12-15 02:00
Of course, Musk is a little insane. Not in a bad way though… I think anyone who has done half of what he has is a little crazy. And his recent buying of Twitter – OMGoodness &nd&hell…Read More
2022-12-14 02:00
I am in shock that Mike Leach is suddenly gone. Sudden heart attack – and he is no longer here… 😢 He was awesome, and I was such a fan. See, his glory days at Texas Tech… Read More
2022-12-12 23:00
Traders trading while Empires fall and rise again Agnostic smile
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2022-12-10 02:00
1. Stop and think about what you want out of life. What’s the point? What’s the goal? Why did you go to school? How do you want to spend your days? I mean: What if you get your d… Read More
2022-12-09 02:00
Every single company with employees should have an internal company wiki. Come to think of it – solopreneurs should have one too (in case they want to sell one day). Why? Because I hav… Read More
2022-12-08 02:00
This post – Leadership Is Communication – is another repost from the former john.do blog. Good-grief I miss that blog… Be-that-as-it-may, you know how every so often somet… Read More
2022-12-07 02:00
This made me laugh a little too hard because it reminded me of all my old work peeps back at ARMtech. It was a running joke that nobody in our department liked doing group projects. 🤣……Read More
2022-12-06 02:00
Considering and Reading is not the same, for Many do just one
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2022-12-03 02:00
1. I don’t care what you think. Bing Crosby’s Christmas music is lit. 🎄🔥 2. Enough empires. 3. Can we (for the love of everything) stop buying people things they… Read More
2022-12-01 14:00
It’s Thursday, I’m tired, and I didn’t even realize I needed a video of a goat riding a sheep. But here we are. Sigh.
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2022-12-01 02:00
The other day, I stumbled on this tweet about people who would rather build empires than productive companies. Why does this warrant further discussion? Because I have seen it at every place… Read More
2022-11-29 02:00
Time gone, aching truth You call it your wiggly tooth Kindergarten’s first
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2022-11-25 02:00
Here are 5 things I am thankful for in 2022. Here are 2021 and 2020. #1I am so thankful for my wife and kids. I know I say this every year – but they are one of the main joys of my lif… Read More
2022-11-25 02:00
Can you base the laws of a world, the foundations of a people, on mere natural impulses? You can – but what kind of place is that? No really, stop and think about it philosophically. I… Read More
2022-11-24 02:00
“He took the wild winner.” 🤔 What looked to us like hands held up in surrender was really the opening of arms to enfold us forever. If the fully planned and conditioned w… Read More
2022-11-23 02:00
Sometimes you get to sit in the suite at the Texas Tech football game. And sometimes you sit with everyone else… Give me the suite life. It sure – it feels hoity-toity. But I&rs&hell…Read More
2022-11-22 02:00
Would you help me write A poem of grace and light Your baptism day
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2022-11-19 02:00
1. You need to work toward a goal more than you need to reach it. 2. “those who stand outside all judgments of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to… Read More
2022-11-18 02:00
Where does your doctrine of value come from? Are you making decisions based on the Tao? Or based on or on the emotional strength of an impulse? This is worth considering in detail if you hav… Read More
2022-11-17 02:00
One of the best marriage superpower strengths is not what you think it is. It’s not explaining yourself better. It’s not a new love language you are not using. It’s not din… Read More
2022-11-16 02:30
It’s because you have no basis for reason. For how can physics criticize value judgments? Understand: Exploding stars can not comment on ethics. An open mind, in questions that are not… Read More
2022-11-15 02:00
Time is an odd thing Swallowing up you and me Like grasping the sea
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2022-11-12 02:00
1. It’s amazing how many people confuse meekness and weakness. 2. That silly pink pony. 3. If you make 60k – you should probably not buy a car for 60k – just saying. 4. Why… Read More
2022-11-11 02:00
Pinkie Pie moved to the window. Because when she falls off your shirt – you ask her about it. And that’s where she wanted to go. 🤷♂️ That is that. Hmmph… Read More
2022-11-10 02:00
The thing about value judgments is just that. They are subjective. I mean: Why is your need to keep something that is “yours” greater than my need to take it? Why is your desire… Read More
2022-11-09 02:00
Instabooks 366: bookstagramgold
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2022-11-08 02:00
The blood and filth of This nation of despot love Gives nothing above
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2022-11-05 01:00
1. I just realized the band-aid industry is a fraud. 99% of band-aids are used by children and are completely unnecessary. 🤣 2. Come here. I eat you. 3. One of the biggest career fle… Read More
2022-11-04 01:00
This one is for the kids. Hahaha. I’m dead now.
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2022-11-03 01:00
Do affirmations work or not? I have no idea, to be honest… Seems fishy. But I am about to test this empirically in a huge way. (I’ll try to report back.) Adam does have a good p… Read More
2022-11-02 01:00
Instabooks : bookstrofficial
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2022-11-01 01:00
For all the late nights For Advil and coffee days Here’s to the parents
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2022-10-29 01:00
1. I’m looking at the years gone by tonight. Trying not to think about the grief that lies ahead. 2. Go make someone’s day. Someone you don’t even know. 3. You can’t… Read More
2022-10-28 01:00
Ok, so the bank that my wife is at now has done an incredible thing – American State Bank has partnered with NFL star Patrick Mahomes. He is now their second-largest shareholder! €……Read More
2022-10-27 01:00
Some editor emeritus called me an “oil apologist” in a recent piece. 😂 This is because I claimed that oil companies were, in fact, not “gouging” the public. T… Read More
2022-10-26 01:00
Our family has been packing Christmas shoeboxes to go overseas with Samaritan’s Purse. It was all good until my oldest sat me down to watch Lola’s Lion. Oh man. Got me all choked… Read More
2022-10-25 01:00
Work stress and no sleep Junk food and no vacation American dream
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2022-10-22 01:00
1. Those degrees I got matter less and less with each passing year. 2. By what measure does one claim authority? It better be a good one. Or else it is just “might makes right.”… Read More
2022-10-21 01:00
If nobody can claim authority, then on what basis can anyone claim the “truth” about anything? On what standard is your authority based? Science? Your strength, political clout… Read More
2022-10-20 01:00
I pondered all morning today this essay on the long-haulers by Ann Finkbeiner. She writes of a bean seller that did his job faithfully for decades, the void it created when he died, and the… Read More
2022-10-19 01:00
Modern Monetary Theory is the insane and frankly – stupid as all get out – notion that a government can print as much money as it wants to without any actual harm. Governments sh… Read More
2022-10-18 01:00
You don’t want to sleep Or ever get in your bed Parent made to weep
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2022-10-14 23:06
1. With kids, Friday night is pizza night. It’s not because we are fun. It’s because we are tired. 2. I just love movies. (Movies > Shows) 3. Here is my first big Twitter thre… Read More
2022-10-14 01:00
The French Dispatch is 100% perfect Wes Anderson. I mean, if you dig Wes Anderson films like I do (for all these reasons) – you’re gonna love this movie. Huge cast. It’s sl… Read More
2022-10-13 01:00
Of course, here I am not saying that basic human rights do not exist, or do not matter. I am saying that many of the people arguing about it do not have a foundation on which to put it. &ldq&hell…Read More
2022-10-12 01:00
Few understand how Dependent our world is on Energy, invest
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2022-10-11 01:00
I got to go to an event at The Outdoor Chef in Lubbock this last week. They did this little presentation on how to cook a brisket and gave us this handout. Cool, cool. I mean, I’m no c… Read More
2022-10-08 01:00
1. Excluding Armageddon – this is the bear market most likely to make me rich. 2. I will probably never dress in a suit for work. But I need that couch. 3. If you are going to be anyth… Read More
2022-10-07 01:00
For everything I have said here and here and here – and a hundred other places – arguing that a certain behavior “will preserve society” is a weak argument. Why is a… Read More
2022-10-06 01:00
You may think that something is necessary – but necessary for what? I don’t like the finger-in-your-eye kind of posts, but let me be real here… If your worldview can not a… Read More
2022-10-05 01:00
Hold the phone, there is a website that lets you shop for furniture from your favorite films. I mean, I’m no big furniture buyer. 🤣 But it’s still pretty cool… The… Read More
2022-10-04 01:00
We lie back and slouch As the kids shuffle blankets Time with our new couch
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2022-10-01 01:00
1. Government debt is such a pernicious thing. But politicians are all bread and circuses, aren’t they? 2. If you remove the foundation, it should not surprise you that the structure i… Read More
2022-09-30 01:00
I read about a shotgun house for the first time so long ago now, I can’t remember where it was. It’s a small design perfect for tiny and narrow lots that may have originated in A… Read More
2022-09-29 01:00
Oh, wow – here are 18 bookplates of famous writers. Bookplates are a bit of a throwback these days though, aren’t they? If you don’t know – they are nothing more than… Read More
2022-09-28 01:00
Removing the organ and demanding the function seems crazy, right? Of course, it is. It is because a specific organ is there to perform a particular type of function. Hearts move blood. Lungs… Read More
2022-09-27 01:00
Stillness of summer The ranching work time of year Grandparents were here
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2022-09-24 01:00
1. Stack equity, don’t tell a soul. 2. Is it morally (ethically) wrong for an ant to eat an aphid? Why or why not? Is the answer different for humans? Why or why not? 3. Take a deep br… Read More
2022-09-23 01:00
When the most beautiful kindergartner in the world gives you a Pinky Pie sticker and asks you to wear it for the day, do you know what you do? You wear it all day. A few people here and ther… Read More
2022-09-22 01:00
In chapel today the speaker talked about spiritual gifts. He made an analogy for it using superheroes. Something for the children to grasp. Spiderman’s superpowers are shooting spider… Read More
2022-09-21 01:00
I realize you can easily get lost in the weeds here with Lewis. But this raises a significant issue. Even if you can justify virtue out of determinism – it does not follow that you sho… Read More
2022-09-20 01:00
With the tick of a Clock and the moving livestock I remember youth
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2022-09-14 01:00
A lack of healthy leisure erodes our humanity. Darn, straight it does. It erodes the humanity of time, relationships, and fleeting simple pleasures. If a job (or potential job) does not have… Read More
2022-09-12 14:03
A shaded spot a Drink cold and a cane pole Is bliss with the fish
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2022-09-07 01:00
Where I Sit 23: Watching gymnastics practice can be therapy after a long day.
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2022-09-06 01:00
Boring office drab Job that’s awful dumb and sad Reading the want ad
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2022-09-03 01:00
1. Leisure is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. It’s a mental health necessity. 2. The grass is green green green. 3. It’s often hard to know when it’s time to leave. B… Read More
2022-09-02 01:00
Welp, I thought the longest prayer in the Bible was King Solomon’s prayer in 1 Kings 8:23-53. But it looks like that is the second longest. The longest is found in Nehemiah. Who knew?… Read More
2022-09-01 01:00
You should dwell on the moon landing – and the years that have passed since then. Because it makes less and less sense the longer you do it. Gosh I sound like a crazy person pointing a… Read More
2022-08-31 01:00
Ok, I know. This is the last hat tip to George Ezra. The songs are just so catchy…(here and here). Green Green GrassBy: George Ezra Well she moves like lightningAnd she counts to thre… Read More
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