Posts tagged with Thoughts
The Limits of Fictional World-Building
In the first scene of the movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , there's a handshake between astronauts—hailing from America and China—as one spaceship docks to a larger space station. Subsequently, as the years…
Year in Review — 2017
Man, this has been a rough year for the world. 2016 foreshadowed some of what could happen this year, but a lot of other unexpected shit went down too, mostly for the worse. In contrast, events in my own life…
Studying Sports for Leadership
I just listened to a great podcast from the Lowe Post—an NBA-centric show—about the book The Captain Class. I haven't read the book myself, but you get a good gist of it from their discussion, the…
3 Months into Meditating
After reading 10% Happier , I was motivated to give meditation a shot. 5–10 minutes a day seems like a small cost for even an additional 5% happiness in everyday life, and the sheer simplicity of the exercise should enable…
Meta-Blog Thoughts, 2017 Edition
Two years removed from being an employee at Square, I made a trip back to the offices to greet familiar faces and check out the updated decor. One of them offhandedly mentioned that I still kept my blog up, despite…
Impressions of the Switch, Three Months Later
The Switch is my first Nintendo console since the SNES. Having missed all the great Nintendo franchises in the past decade or so, I've been excited to wait for the updates the classics, and so far, The Legend…
