Student of Life
I don’t know about you, but as activity on social media sites has surged the last year, I’ve found a lot more noise in my feeds and as result of my projects getting more serious I’ve had less time to sift. I know I’m missing a lot of interesting things people have to say and [...]
A pheonemna that really interests me is when advice from smart people clashes and there appears to be a contradiction. However I don’t think there is actually a contradiction. Usually the contradiction can be resolved in one of 3 ways: 1) One or both people are wrong 2) They are actually both right, but they [...]
Good writing and good conversation seem to have many parallels. In order to continue to write you’re basically having a conversation with yourself and you need to intuitively, or perhaps, sliently whisper the right questions to yourself to prompt an interesting recall or synthesis of information. Asking myself better questions is definitely something I want [...]
Here’s a short story I wrote up a few months ago. I was experimenting with ideas of randomness, networking and success in life in the form of a short story. I could have done a lot more with it and I have a lot of thoughts about how to improve it. This is my first [...]
The Full Nietzche Quote I used as inspiration for this post is attached at the bottom. I find many of Nietzche’s thoughts hard to relate to due my unfamiliarity with the time period he is writing in, but I found this paragraph rich with enduring ideas. Nietzsche’s basic argument here is that men are fearful [...]
The last few days I’ve been working hard to compile and organize my thoughts on all the things I might want to write about. It is a lot of work to gather all the thoughts I’ve been working on the last few years. But I think it’s really important to capture them in concise written [...]
As I said earlier, it’s a bit overwhelming approaching this blog as blank slate. It feels similar to what it must be like standing at the base Mount Everest, confronting an almost insurmountable challenge. Internally my mind is like a well-developed spider web consisting of many intertwined, interdependent thoughts. How do I begin to approach [...]
