What wisdom do you save — and where do you save it? Knowledge is fluid. It changes and evolves over time. It gets adapted to new situations and you need to find ways to save the information so that you can access it on-demand when you need it the future. Although I’m a “journal guy” […]
Back when we were all still allowed to travel further than the length of our driveway and taking a vacation meant more than sitting in a lawn chair in your backyard, my favorite place to escape to was Hawaii. Anytime we travelled to Oahu, my wife and I always made time to visit the Moana […]
After a rainstorm drops sheets of water from the heavens and a little time is given for the H2O to recede, there are always little puddles of water that remain. Small amounts of water that have collected into natural basins of earth and stone and greenery. These small pools of water are interesting individual remnants […]
I was trying a new recipe for homemade mac-and-cheese the other night, and a large part of the time spent preparing the meal was simply waiting for a large pot of water to boil. I could get every other aspect of the meal done, but I couldn’t fully complete the project until that one element […]
My website went offline for a couple hours yesterday, and after consulting with the people who have my back when this sort of thing happens, they determined that the error came about because I was dangerously close to maxing out the space on my hosting account. I thought “Well, when you’ve been blogging for more […]
Although there are many times when you should go slowly, there are also times when you need to accelerate a project or situation more quickly. Ever been stuck behind someone driving way too slowly on the highway, or plodding along in the hallway of an office building? It’s agonizing. You just want to leap over […]
Something that creative people get told a lot is “you can’t do that”. Sometimes those words are accompanied by a reason (we tried that before, we’ve never done that before, there’s no budget, there’s no time, etc.). The reasons don’t matter any more than the the original statement — not for a creative person bent […]