August 2010

How to Ignore Bullshit

August 31, 2010
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I’ve boiled bullshit ignorance down to a 2-step process: Recognize it as it happens. Let it slide off you, unaffected. Bullshit lurks in nearly every avenue of America waiting to strike innocent victims and assimilate its prey into yet another practitioner of nonsense. I call it The Bullshit Assimilation Project.  Recently I encountered one of [...]

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Slower

August 31, 2010

Rolling back into New York City was surprisingly tolerable after a few thousand miles on the Iron Horse tracking through some of the best terrain in the world. I was expecting to be despondent, depressed, and overwhelmed by the masses of people and the daily ritualistic melee of the boroughs, but your combatant was quelled [...]

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Riding the Iron Horse

August 15, 2010

I will be unplugging for the next two weeks to recharge and visit family. I’m taking the trip of a lifetime that I have been looking forward to for years.  I will be taking a train across the country from New York City to Seattle, WA with my wife, 2-year old daughter, and in-laws.  Along [...]

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Running Wild

August 13, 2010

On Wednesday I woke up feeling the type of sad that makes you wonder if your heart will keep beating.  With some virtual help and perspective from my friend, Will I was able to muscle past a huge pile of depression that left me sitting on the side of the road in the Bronx for [...]

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Better not Bigger

August 9, 2010

I struggled all weekend to convince some youngish, fellow students that bigger is not necessarily better.  I failed. The infinite growth paradigm is an alluring psychotropic drug that seems to be a byproduct of the Almighty Spreadsheet.  Plug some numbers and voila — instant business success! Instead of growth for growth’s sake, maybe we should [...]

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