Having just moved to Richmond for a new job at Amazon, my days have been filled with urban exploration and getting to know the new city I call home. And yellow totes. Lots of yellow totes. Through it all, I’ve been building a new mental map of an completely foreign area to me. And so…
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The cult of Success™
I remember the first book about financial improvement I ever read: it was “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki. I was lucky enough to have read it young enough that it did begin to change the way I thought about money and finances: less as tools a more as points in a game. In…
The meaning of life
We’ve been looking in the wrong place all along. I’ve finally found the meaning of life. plural lives play\ˈlīvz\ 1a : the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead bodyb : a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beingsc : an organismic state characterized…
Generally Speaking
We all want a higher paycheck. And today, one of the best ways is to specialize, which is a fancy way of saying that you become an insufferable know-it-all in one very narrow and specific thing, like the mating habits of sea lions in Ecuador’s southern beaches and its effects on the local ecosystem. In…
When the world can help you: The case for negotiation
May 1st 1960. A U2 spyplane is flying over the Soviet Union collecting intel for the United States. The pilot, Francis Gary Powers, is in command. Suddenly, he loses control of his plane. Spiralling out of control, he manages to eject, but is captured by Soviet authorities and placed under arrest. At the same time,…
How to deliver the best speech of your life
I still remember the first time I had to really give a proper speech in class. It was Civics & Economics class. We were given the names of candidates for local elections in North Carolina. Our task was to research their platform, write a speech, and then deliver it in front of the class. In…
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Our language is too rich to not explore it
As of January 1, 2014, the English language had 1,025,109.8 words. At a rate of creation of one word every 98 minutes or 14.7 words per day and with a total elapsed time of 306.9 days as of the time I write this (November 3, 2014 at 9:31pm), that means that the English language currently…
Comic Sans makes me feel Feelings
<rant>When I was 10, I was introduced to PowerPoint presentations. That was the year that my grandparents had a major anniversary and my dad, being the technical whiz of the family, made a presentation with images and music and best wishes for the happily long-married couple. Inspired and wanting to test out the spanking-new medium I was introduced…
It’s Potato Madness!
I’ve seen a lot of crazy things in my day. But one man in Columbus, Ohio just won at life. That’s it. He wins. His winning play? A Kickstarter to make Potato Salad. Let me say that again. A Kickstarter. To make. Potato. Salad. What started as a thing with a $10 goal became a monster…
What you know doesn’t matter.
More than a measurement of the size of the army, phallus, electrical output, political status, or some combination thereof: power is a hard-to-define but definitely still there thing that we’ve obsessed about since humans first got together. Problem is, pinning down exactly what power is darn near impossible. First it was whoever had the biggest stick,…
Met In Transit: Richard
This is a new segment to Why Mondays Are Cool. How often I post on here depends on how often I run into someone while getting from point A to point B. But the basic premise of Met in Transit is to share human stories at a time when they intermingle. So let’s start with…
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