2024-04-14 22:00
In Andy Andrews’ The Noticer, we encounter a character named Jones, who meets people at times in their lives, when they are stuck – desperate, hopeless, about to divorce, pursuin… Read More
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2024-04-07 18:00
I have developed a little bit of a running habit over the years. There is a particular type of run that has emerged as a clear favorite for me: The easy one.
This is not about a lack of e… Read More
2024-03-31 21:00
I am definitely not remembering the exact words, but the conversation sometime at the end of last year went a little like this:
“You ran over one thousand miles this year – t… Read More
2024-03-24 18:00
I bought my first Kindle back in 2008 and have been reading electronic books pretty consistently since then. I do love the experience of reading on paper, but have found plenty of upside for… Read More
2024-03-03 19:00
I appreciate a good quote and in this post, I want to explore one of my favorites, by Charlie Munger, the legendary investor and model thinker, who passed away at the age of ninety-nine at t… Read More
2024-02-18 22:00
I love a good book, for the learning and the enjoyment. I like to read widely and frequently. I virtually always have access to good reading, regardless of whether I am sitting at home (with… Read More
2024-02-04 19:00
In January 2023 I set the goal to run one thousand miles during the course of that year. I wanted to reach that number (and I did, by mid-fall — then kept going), but more importantly… Read More
2024-01-29 07:08
On the first day of the year, I re-read David Foster Wallace’s This Is Water. This essay was first delivered as a commencement speech (at Kenyon College in 2005) and later stretched ou… Read More
2023-11-12 23:00
Fourteen point two miles into a twenty-one mile run, on October 29, I passed the one thousand mile mark for the year. It was a bit anti-climactic. Having noticed it after checking the curren… Read More
2023-10-15 22:00
Most of the time, when I write about running, it is just incidentally or only partly actually about running.That is no different here. Undoubtedly, when spending hours running outside, my mi… Read More
2023-09-25 01:36
The book Maxims for Thinking Analytically, by Dan Levy is a relatively short, very accessibly written book that can help you think clearer and make better decisions. It does so by covering s… Read More
2023-08-20 19:00
In the book The Great Mental Models, Volume 1, the chapter Second-Order Thinking opens with the following quote:
Technology is fine, but the scientists and engineers only partially think… Read More
2023-08-14 00:00
We were about forty minutes into a transatlantic flight of almost ten hours. The three of us were each doing our own thing, when suddenly the people in front of us reclined their seats back… Read More
2023-07-02 19:00
In One Thousand Miles, I suggested there would be no shortcuts. The point is to run one thousand miles; cutting that short would defeat the purpose. That is of course only part of the story… Read More
2023-06-18 16:00
One of the most important movies of the horror genre is undoubtedly the classic Night of the Living Dead. It delivers social cultural commentary — and tells a horrifying tale involving… Read More
2023-06-05 00:00
I love a great dessert and in our household, ice cream is an obvious and always welcome favorite. Tasty ice cream is an amazing treat. It is delicious, creamy and sweet. Maybe you look at th… Read More
2023-05-28 21:00
I have seen him at a distance around the neighborhood walking his dog occasionally, maybe every other week or so. I do not know him, we have never spoken. They seem content, but he is always… Read More
2023-05-21 18:15
More than five hundred miles into this year’s goal of one thousand miles of running, this has been rewarding and a lot of fun already! Of course, eventually getting there means quite d… Read More
2023-05-14 13:57
Our beloved family dog – Ada – passed away peacefully and in the comfort of our home, surrounded by loving family, in the evening of Sunday, May 7, 2023. As we were holding her i… Read More
2023-04-30 23:25
“Daddy, help! It’s too hard!”
My daughter (then age seven) was lying on the couch, head propped up. She was holding a Rubik’s Cube in her little hands. She was wig… Read More
2023-04-16 23:00
It has been just about three months since I posted about my intention of running one thousand miles this year. It seems that enough days (and runs!) have passed to allow a little bit of refl… Read More
2023-04-10 00:00
In A Deep Dive into Innovation, Edward Arnold Wasserman discusses how innovations often come about due to experimentation in a given environment, i.e. depend on context, consequence and chan… Read More
2023-04-03 00:00
Effective communication between people can be challenging. Sometimes, this is not obvious at all. Invisible or well-hidden challenges can be particularly vexing. The illusion of communicatio… Read More
2023-03-26 23:00
The concept of broken window theory was introduced by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in their Atlantic magazine article Broken Windows. The authors argued that visible signs… Read More
2023-03-19 23:00
The other weekend I had the opportunity to run a 5k with my daughter (10) – her first such race – near Seattle Center in downtown Seattle. She first participated in a 1k kids das… Read More
2023-03-13 00:32
Perhaps you care about solving a specific problem, accomplishing a goal or establishing a good habit — or ending a bad one. It is about getting from a current (problem) state to differ… Read More
2023-03-06 01:00
I previously wrote about the notion of working out to silence, to get to a quiet mental state, to make it easier to think clearly and more deeply. Here is additional perspective on that… Read More
2023-02-27 00:00
Generally, it is better to know than not to know. Accurate knowledge helps you see reality more clearly and enables you to make better decisions. Some bits of knowledge are more useful than… Read More
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