Just coming off a 4-day holiday weekend, I wanted to muse a bit about time, how it can be spent and our options for how to use it. Time is fungible, as in, it is something that can change into other things, which makes it just a little bit magical. Time passes, whether we want …
Month: November 2021
It’s Thanksgiving Again
Well, it has been a full year since I wrote about what I was thankful for and, having just reread my post from 2020, I can say I should definitely avoid making predictions for the future. Many of the items I noted are still valid this year, but a lot has changed too. As far …
Capitalism, in its Current Form, is an Addiction
America is truly a land of addictions. You need look no further than the latest statistics about the opioid epidemic to see. One hundred-thousand people died in the last year from opioid overdose, mostly from illegal fentanyl, a synthetic version of heroin. This is the same drug that took the lives of Prince, Tom Petty, …
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The Great Resignation
Everyone else is writing on this topic, so why not me too? What do people want to work for? Based on our pre-Covid economic model, it would seem people worked out of necessity, for their survival, to keep a roof over their heads and food on their tables. It was barely working. Many people do …
“Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?”
Ahhhhh, one of the most famous (or infamous) and most common job interview questions. And also one of the most vexing for autistic and other neurodivergent folks. I've recently thrown myself into the deep end in LinkedIn and this is a theme that appears in my feed nearly every day. Most articles seem to state …
Time
Being that this is the week after our semi-annual, fuck-with-my-sleep-for-a-week thing we call the daylight saving time "Fall back," I thought I would write about TIME today. I have always had an uneasy relationship with time. It may or may not have started when, as a young child, I observed the arbitrariness of certain aspects …
What is the Real Difference Between Competence and the Appearance of Competence?
From all outside observation, most people would say I was very good at school. I got good grades and generally followed the rules. I have years of report cards and transcripts that show how capable I was, how much I learned. My final high school GPA was about 3.6 on a 4.0 scale. The problem …
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Life’s Too Short
Life's too short not to make every attempt to make amends with people with whom you've had a falling out. From those you find challenging (or vice versa), the most important lessons come. Life's too short to spend any more than 40 hours per week working. You also have other important things to do with …
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