Today, I looked up writing prompts and came across a bunch of random lists. I settled on the title prompt:Write About What Motivates You and What Scares You. So here we go. What motivates me. I would have to say knowledge motivates me. I am both a fan of accumulating knowledge as well as sharing … Read more
You may have heard this phrase before, most famously used by JFK in 1963. The meaning is that improving an economy benefits everyone within the economy. When it comes to knowledge, this is almost always the case. There has been an old fashioned mindset that withholding certain information from your peers is the best or … Read more
Right before a Falcon Launch in 2015, Elon Musk decided to host an AMA(Ask Me Anything) on Reddit. While most of the questions and answers revolves around the science of the rockets naturally, there was a gem of a quote about learning: “One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of … Read more
My wife Krista just finished up a Zoom class on Tarot Card reading. I volunteered for a 1 card quick read for her to practice on. She told me to ask a question. I wasn’t sure what to ask but after a minute of staring into space while she shuffled her Crow Tarot Deck – … Read more
Engineer Destin Sandlin had some friends who welded the handlebars of a bicycle to turn in the opposite direction of the front wheel. The reverse steering of this backwards bike really pushes the common saying, you never forget how to ride a bike. https://youtu.be/MFzDaBzBlL0 If you didn’t watch the video, basically he spent 8 months … Read more
“Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents” — Epictetus. I’ve been guilty of this. at one point I was reading 2-3 personal development books per month. While it wasn’t a … Read more
The autobiography by Frank Abagnale Jr. was made into a hit movie in 2002 starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Catch Me If You Can. Frank is a master con man who’s exploits between the ages of 15 and 21 made him one of the most notorious impostors. In the book(but cut from the movie) was a con … Read more