Ev Williams said ’10 years of hard work will make you look like an overnight success.’ I agree and must add, as an army buddy says, ‘fight the tank.’ When a tank rolls into the equation, it must be taken out. Battlefield psychology has proven this time and time again, and the people who reap [...]
In regards to gatekeepers as they pertain to academia, one has to provide the appropriate keys in order to continue learning. I was required to produce a self-recommendation letter for continuing education. My current boss calls the resume your ‘love me wall,’ I find these letters to be a much more humbling and harder to [...]
Often times I’m sitting at a bar having a beer or two here, looking at the locals, wondering what’s on their mind…In Texas I’d usually just ask, here it’s a mystery. In many ways the struggle for purpose as an expat takes unique paths. Music has always gave me purpose, and like a diligent groupie, [...]
As we wait for chemistry and physics to help us define the way forward, as we sway with the growth and energy curves, Ben Folds with Nick Hornby push the psychological and sociological curves ahead. Belinda, not much for the average listen, but a wealth if insight and sadness to the keen ear.
Quirky little things I put a significant amount of thought to…..when you’re driving a new vehicle off the lot, what’s the first tunes you’re going to play…Things like that sorta get emblazoned in the noggin’. I had to go with the theme that fits my life best here in Europe and blare Roxette’s new one [...]
Many things come to mind would be an understatement for: 1: Ben Folds 2: Prague Cluttered through the history of these ramblings these two forces have been recurring items. Just seeing this wonderful man belt out angst ridden pop ballads and gut wrenching said songs makes my heart scream with joy and wallow in sorrow [...]
As the days go on while being on the payroll of the paranoid, I keep thinking back to a quote by Joseph Nye, “It’s not whose army wins; it’s also whose story wins.” Meanwhile, as Senator Elect Gary Johnson says: Remarkable things are happening across the globe. People are taking to the streets to demand [...]
One thing that ol’ Ben Kweller instilled in my thoughts was the statement ‘I want to see everything TWICE!’ I was lucky enough to step foot in Vienna the second time around, 11 years later, what a heck of a ride since the first round. It’s been so fun, inspiring and humbling. I wanted to [...]
Initial thoughts: In the land of technology, abundance and automation…how is it relevant anymore to name drop ‘the founding fathers’ and what they’d do about the political climate? Did they realize we’d all have iPhones? How did we go from Cato the Elder to the clowns we now have on TV? What about reconciling the [...]
There comes a time when a man has to have personal dialogue with himself. A time to seek spirituality, inner peace, and what’s right and wrong. There’s a time when thoughts trump actions, and actions speak louder than words, a time to reflect, a time to be curious, a time to let your emotion run [...]