I’m pretty open about my nerdiness. I love listening to film scores. If I ever need to make my work week feel just a little more epic, I’ll turn to Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings score or a favorite John Williams piece. […]
I’m beginning to think that one of the most underrated skills today is knowing how to use Facebook to get what you want. Today I was able to find two or three good roommate opportunities for a friend in just […]
I had the chance to appear briefly on one of my favorite podcasts last month. The World Wanderers – my good friends Ryan Ferguson and Amanda Kingsmith – talked to several locals from Atlanta on what makes our city great […]
I decided to write a happy ending for the Donald Trump saga. I borrowed from a story I heard when I was just a wee little man. He/she who has ears to hear, let them hear. One day Jesus was […]
I’ve met wonderful people through some of my work adventures over the past year. Lydia Matson is one of my favorites, and I think you’ll see why in this interview discussion I had with her this summer. She was one […]
My coworker/digital marketing Jedi master Derek Magill recently answered the Life Hacker “How I Work” challenge. Now I’ve been called to give an account of how I get things done. Here goes: How I Work Location: Atlanta, GA, US of A […]
I won’t claim to have any kind of special insight into life at my tender age, so I’ll just expand on a common bit of wisdom: never be the smartest person in the room. Since joining a quickly-growing company after high […]
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin Internships are a disagreeable but very real part of growing into a career. At least until we bring back the apprenticeship (we’re working on it), many young people may find […]
“To every thing there is a season . . . a time to keep silence, and a time to speak . . . a time of war and a time of peace.” – Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3 Three of the most […]
“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.” -Nassim Nicolas Taleb, Antifragile In Antifragile, statistician and scholar Nassim Nicolas Taleb argues that there are three types […]
Confession: I am an avid fan of country music. No, not the country music you may have heard in a truck commercial (though this is actually a great one). I’m talking about Western swing, alt-country, string band music, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass […]
The Stoic philosophers are an interesting bunch. While I don’t accept their fatalistic approach to the events of life or their obsession with duty, I see value in what they have to say about dealing with challenges with grace and […]
Less than a year ago I was working in landscaping and listening to podcasts. Lots of podcasts. One of those podcasts was Let’s Talk Bitcoin. It was one of the first technology podcasts I started listening to. Most of my […]
This post was originally published on the Praxis blog. I’ve always had fairly large goals. When it came to actually accomplishing them, I wasn’t much different from many people my age. That is to say, I was getting nothing important done. I was […]
“He’s a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction.” – Kris Kristofferson An aristocrat who joins a peasant revolution. An atheist who enjoys liturgical music. A janitor who makes a breakthrough scientific discovery. If these sound like they would be […]