Day 262 – The Simple Reason Why It is Hard to Think
It is Friday, at 3:00pm and you really need to analyze something and solve a particular problem, but it is hard. No matter how hard you try to focus, you find it difficult to get your brain to stay engaged long enough to complete a coherent train of thought. Your mind is very willing to […]
Day 261 – What You Should be Doing?
I was on a conference call today, discussing marketing. Someone explained the benefits of their particular service to me. After the presentation was over, we began to discuss what I needed in my business. During this discussion, I talked for a few moments about what I was attempting to do and why. The person on […]
Day 260 – Meet New People
A concept that I repeat to myself often is this: you have not met the person who will have the greatest influence in your life yet. A Mindset Shift Your instinct will be to argue against this concept. You will say, what about my spouse? My parents? My Grandparents? These deflections miss the point entirely. […]
Day 259 – Communication as Art
When I was a child, I was fascinated by the spoken word. I loved hearing from great orators. I would analyze and think about their word selection, tone, and emphasis. I also greatly considered their use of pauses and other non-verbal messaging. I would go on to get my first degree in Argumentation in Rhetoric […]
Day 258 – Declare War on Self-Consumerism
This carbon footprint tracking thing is another scam of our consumer culture. Do not get me wrong—I am just as much a tree-loving hippy as anyone else—but seriously, companies are not doing anything to alleviate your carbon footprint. They are just helping you feel better by spending your money with them. I sat through the […]
Day 257 – A Life of Upgrades
I enjoyed my first major upgrade sometime in 1987. I had a functioning Intel 80286 clone PC that could barely run MS-DOS. I really did not use this PC much; I believe my uncle gave it to me. However, I was finally in for my first upgrade. We got a 386 motherboard with a 486 […]
Day 256 – Cut in Half
So, yesterday, I dove into the science of inflammation in the human body. I already knew these concepts, but the revelation was just the amount of debris that was dumped into our systems when digesting a meal. We do not understand what goes on at a cellular level; we take for granted the ability of […]
Day 255 – Cytokine Storm
I was listening to a lecture on a study on inflammation and immune system response, in which a team was recapping some of the recent lab results in this area. During this lecture, I heard a phrase called a Cytokine Storm, which I never heard of before. So I thought it would make a great […]
Day 254 – Irony is Dialectic – Part 3
This is part 3 of my discussion of how Kenneth Burke, a critical thinker in the last century, really messed me up. I blame him for not doing well in college. I also blame him for always being different. The idea of conformity shakes me to my core, and it is the concepts of dramatic […]
Day 253 – What is Not There – Part 2
This is part 2 of a series of articles on a philosopher who really jacked me up: Kenneth Burke. In my previous article, I referenced some of his more popular theories, namely that humans are agents of symbolic action. The language that I am using is a premier example of how we constantly engage in […]