What will be your life’s sweetest dessert?

I recently rewatched a video related to the prolific band The Cure being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

No, it wasn’t a video of Trent Reznor’s flattering induction speech. It was the one of …

If there’s one thing I’ve come to value after the last 16 years full-time in the workforce, it’s simplicity.

‘Simplicity’ is not the same as ‘easy’. Something simple may still be hard. (Some of the hardest truths may be the simplest.)

Simplicity means …

My son is in his final year of reg-league baseball. This fall season is his next-to-last season, with his last being in the spring. It’s a bittersweet time.

The bitter part of that equation is obvious—what if he never plays baseball again? What if …

How many layers must you wade through in the search for your own writing’s common thread?

I once said that persuasion was my own writing’s common thread, but now I’m realizing there’s more to it.

Humanity. The human condition. What does this mean for …

Existence, well what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can
— ‘Heart and Soul’ by Joy Division

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Existentialists ask what it all means.

Nihilists say it all means nothing.

Absurdists say it all means nothing, yet we can’t help trying to attach …

Not so long ago, bloggers used social media to share their posts and build audiences. While social media is unlikely to go away any time soon, people do seem to be falling out of love with it, if for no other reason than most of the mainstream social …

I’m on the verge of finishing my absurdist comedy novella, which will become my longest completed writing project.

When it’s all said and done, I’ll most likely have enjoyed the process far more than the finished product. Because this pending novella …

In an attempt to reverse its falling stock price, Southwest Airlines announced it will start assigning seats to its passengers.

Congratulations, Southwest—you just became indistinguishable from every other airline!

Writers would be smart to question …

If you’ve found a certain tool or service that works for you and makes your life better, COOL—then keep using that thing. This advice applies to AI, Notion, Obsidian, TikTok, WHATEVER. If your tool of choice is a net benefit, then keep on keepin’ on. …

As I’m writing this post, I’m juggling three longform writing projects:

• An absurdist comedy novella
• A vampire hunting novel
• A literary novel about fatherhood

The literary novel is the only one I can imagine publishing.

The vampire story is so far outside …

No business stands on its own. Every business is dependent on something else in some way; the question is to what degree, and how stable is that dependency?

Transportation companies are dependent on highways and railroads and open waterways and skies. …

Over the last few months, I’ve been asking myself if I’ve been turning into a Communist, as certain aspects of capitalism have had me seeing red.

So many parts of the capitalist system feel broken, especially when companies lay off thousands of …

Since OpenAI released ChatGPT to the masses, there’s plenty of debate over where and when AI can replace human workers.

But I think this debate misses a crucial point. If AI can replace a human worker for a specific job function, why is that? Is it …

So you wanna read more.

Maybe you’re trying to unplug more often. Or maybe you read a blog post about leadership and bought into the old adage that leaders read.

Whatever the case, you want to get your face in more books and digital content worth …

In the autobiography The Life of Frederick Douglass, the author takes an interesting view on slavery when he argues that when otherwise good people become slaveowners, they can’t help becoming monsters. Douglass takes a compassionate view of the …

I’ll always appreciate the MobiScribe Wave as being the device that proved an e-ink tablet has a place in my life, but after nearly five months of use, I’ve realized I can’t recommend the Wave to others. Or, perhaps more accurately, I can recommend …

All too often, we contemplate how we want to succeed.

What would you do if you knew you were destined to succeed?

Go do that.

So the wisdom goes.

But sometimes it pays to look at the other end of the spectrum. What if your venture is doomed to fail? For …

Why should we create in the age of AI? How can we compete?

This post from LMNT puts a different perspective on things:

I take a little comfort in knowing that it will be impossible for “AI” tools—here on out—to differentiate between human-made and …

Today’s target for artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be artificial general intelligence (AGI), a technology that is competent in many areas, like humans. AI is most often highly-specialized, focusing on one area with a narrow set of tasks. This …

Writing is easy. All you do is string together a bunch of words.

Or so some would have you think. Never mind the fact that so many of us are terrible at saying what we mean.

Writing is much harder than some give credit.

Because writing is more than …

These days, people are worried about AI taking their jobs. And who can blame them, with all the stories circulating about AI’s great accomplishments. (P.S. If you’re looking for a counterweight to the hype, read Rebooting AI: Building Artificial …

Introverts make up at least one-third of the population—maybe as high as one-half—yet in so many ways the world feels as if it’s made only for extroverts. How can it be that our social systems benefit one type of person while alienating the other?

Pop …

As long as there are people, there will be questions about the human condition. How are people doing? What are their greatest struggles and fears and joys? And what does it mean to be a real human being at any point in time?

Odds are good I won’t make …

I’ve been rethinking my relationship with technology since I started reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport.

After mentioning this book is usually when a blogger tells his audience he’s deleted his social media accounts and can now be reached only …

Advancements in AI and augmented intelligence are leading to endless predictions for the future. Nearly everyone has a hot take on what jobs these technologies will replace—or that it’s all a bubble waiting to burst.

So which is it?

Meh. Who knows. …