Do you read blogs? In recent years, social media has dominated the web and all of the smart people said blogging is dead. Well, I disagree. There is a certain kind of blog, the one where bloggers share intimate details of their personal lives, trying to impress visitors with their recent exotic trip or expensive purchase, those blogs have moved to Facebook or Instagram, maybe … [Read more...]
A Fresh Start
This long neglected website, always took a back seat to my other sites, but after more than twenty years of writing elsewhere, there were many topics worth discussing that didn't fit anywhere among the thousands of articles I'd already published, so I'm here to give them a home. In the coming days, I expect to cover much of what I previously set aside and a whole host of … [Read more...]
That I Will Be Tomorrow
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and the movements and changes in the world around him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to … [Read more...]
The Career Craftsman
The Career Craftsman understands that “follow your passion and all will be happy” is a children’s tale. Most people don’t have pre-existing passions waiting to be unearthed. Happiness requires more than solving a simple matching problem.The Career Craftsman knows there’s no magical “right job” waiting out there for you. Any number of pursuits can provide the foundation for an … [Read more...]
Robert Heinlein bad luck
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a … [Read more...]