Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

My old office manager was the kind of person who was either hurt, sick, or recovering from being hurt or sick. The bouncy ball of her mind never seemed to rattle to a stop. Despite her attempts to hang onto the reins, her brain raced out of control, and often times it made her body run right off the tracks with it. And it’s not like she wasn’t suffering…

Although there is no intrinsic meaning in the universe, it’s not particularly helpful for me to believe that it’s pointless to try and construct my own meaning as a substitute. While still honoring and indulging in the nihilistic parts of myself, my main approach to life is to be existentialist in nature, using the combination of my creativity, my awareness and my agency to make the meaning my soul…

Henson, in creating his beloved puppet characters, believed that many of his creations were artisanal. Not in the hipster way of being bespoke, painstakingly produced small batch items. Rather, in the hippie way of the art not being a pitch for anything, it was simply the thing itself. It was everything the artist wanted it to be. This framing of the work we do is important. It need not…

The first question we have to ask is whether or not this decision is even worth making. Because it may not be. The act of deciding may take too much time and burn too many resources, the results of which won’t offset the opportunity cost of getting where we are going. Training yourself to become binary about decisions early and often can be a massive anxiety reducer. However, if…

Being part of a tribe satisfies our most primal urge to belong. The idea of joining this group of people who, if we went away would miss us, is a deep and ancient human dream that is worth pursuing. Human tribalism, on the other hand, is really terrible idea. Our preliterate humanity can make us do some pretty awful things to each other, and so, we have a responsibility to use…