Moths and Success

Imagine if every business were a lightbulb and that for each lightbulb the primary goal was to attract the most moths possible. Now what if you learned that 49% of the reason moths were attracted to the bulb was for the quality of its light (brightness being the task of the bulb) and that 51% […]

The paradox of our time

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but […]

Perspective

If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend they […]

Suspicious Minds

As Elvis once said, ‘caught in a trap’…

Read slowly

The digital world offers us many advantages, but if we yield to that world too completely we may lose the privacy we need to develop a self. Activities that require time and careful attention, like serious reading, are at risk; we read less and skim more as the Internet occupies more of our lives. And […]

Bullshit Man

QR Codes

We’re bombarded by more information than ever before. With the rise of all this information comes a rise of the amount of bullshit we’re exposed to. Enter QR codes. Pointless.

Who defines you?

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? Danielle LaPorte

The Labrynth

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Being tough on critics

I say they’re just fucking wankers. I cannot be doing with people like that. It justifies their own bone-idleness because they can’t ever imagine applying themselves to do anything in their lives. It’s easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter and write that sort of shit, rather than get off their arses […]

David Bailey on Fame

I saw David Bailey being interviewed at his show at The National Portrait Gallery. The interviewer gestured around the portrait section. He said “You really have shot a remarkable number of celebrities.” Bailey said “Nah, I don’t shoot celebrities.” The interviewer said “But these are all famous people: Michael Caine, Andy Warhol, […]

Bus to Abilene

I so often witness a failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and true leadership ability. I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas. It’s so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy […]

Don’t worry, he’s a dick.

Political correctness is the oppression of our intellectual movement so no one says anything anymore just in case anyone else get’s offended. What happens if you say that and someone gets offended? Well they can be offended, can’t they? What’s wrong with being offended? When did stick and stones may break my bones stop being […]

Life goals?

Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.

Wisdom looks like…

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie