Anyone can be a CEO… given enough drive, a growth mindset, and massive luck.

A big breakthrough for my marriage and how I have a healthier relationship with home improvement projects has been the use of a Kanban board to organize what we wish to do and turn it into action. It’s cheap and easy to have a wish, but it’s quite another matter to turn that into a completed project. The agreement is, that anything can go on the Kanban board, but it’s a joint decision of what gets prioritized. Luckily we live under our means, so sometimes the constraints of cost come up, but that goes into the decision-making. As the primary laborer for the projects, I will only actively work on one project at a time. Sometimes things go on hold, so they will move to the Waiting column.

I needed a job when I started college. Kinko’s seemed like a good place to work, so I applied at the location nearest to where I lived in Las Vegas. I immediately liked it. It was fast-paced and had just enough computer-related things to hold my interest. Best of all, I worked the second shift, which meant we were left without the store manager to fend for ourselves. The customers at this store were an interesting mix of local businesses and people, both needing something in a hurry. Best of all, Kinko’s was a transferable skill, which would prove valuable as I moved around in my youth. It was mostly the people I worked with who were fascinating and memorable.

The Inescapable Rise of Moral Superiority by Michelle Cyca

As cathartic as venting one’s outrage can be in the moment, it’s clear that moral grandstanding accomplishes very little beyond the fleeting satisfaction that it brings. Shaming people doesn’t seem to change their behavior, and invoking mass shooting victims in an argument about hamburgers doesn’t move the needle on gun control. Social change doesn’t come from posting but from purposeful collective action: organizing, voting, protesting. At worst, the catharsis of grandstanding deludes us into thinking that virtuous online posturing is a meaningful form of solidarity and not a fruitless, ego-driven impulse. Tosi and Warmke argue that the purpose of recognizing moral grandstanding isn’t to get other people to knock it off; it’s to stop doing it yourself.

Does your spirituality involve working on your character?

Does your spirituality acknowledge we are all deeply flawed?

My new wonderfully ridiculous running hat is from https://getsprints.com.

I’ve had a running injury since April. It has been an ongoing source of annoyance and demoralizing to my spirit. I had thought it was plantar fasciitis, but through the magic of the YouTube algorithm one night, I stumbled upon this video:

Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating? by Ross Andersen

The brain that lets us analyze, model, and conceptualize systems tends to see itself as being outside of the system. This most clearly manifests as being a consumer of the environment in which we live and not a member of it. We routinely do not integrate into our environment but look to shape it to our needs. We interrupt the system instead of participating in it. Perhaps we are not able to comprehend how to participate and are just following our animalistic programming.

I visit the bookstore at least three times per month. I find it relaxing to see what is new and discover what I have not seen. Books were always important to my father. He eventually managed a large bookstore for a few years. I started working at Bookstar when I was twenty, which was purchased and finally converted to Barnes & Noble. Then I worked at Borders, the superior bookstore with a much better and more diverse selection. For the record, I am still quite disappointed that Borders didn’t make it. My time there was at the height of Infinite Jest, Anne Rice, and R. L. Stine.