Monthly Archives: April 2016

Whether in science, faith, investments, or relationships you can always talk yourself out of the next thing. The next experiment. The next exercise or experience. The next trade. The next friend. There will always be ways to convince yourself to stick to the status quo, to stay where you are, to play it safe. ItContinue reading “What a Journey”

One form of chronological snobbery that I often hear, and yet am convinced is erroneous, is the condemnation of previous generations as bigoted, racist, sexist, etc with the belief that were we to live in those times we have gone about life differently. The haunting question for us, for our generations, is “what do weContinue reading “All we do not see…”

Honestly, and the antithesis, lying, are simple in concept, but can become inordinately complicated to consider practically. When children are young, it is simple and sensible to imbue them with what they take as the hard and fast principle that one should never lie. The humorous, classic example is when a child eats a candy,Continue reading “On Honesty and Lying”

At the end of everything, when all is said and done, it will be how we allocated our time and leveraged our talents for the benefit of others that will matter. No one is the same. People are given vastly different amounts of time. Some a handful of years, some a century or more. People areContinue reading “Time and Talents”