Messages in the sand
“death taps us on the shoulder and asks us to encapsulate a life by its loves. Death is not impressed by what we have done, unless what we have done leaves a legacy of life; death’s tide washes over everything we have taken so long to write in the sand. What is remembered in all […]
Being Worthy
“We have even a stranger idea: that we will finally fall in love with ourselves only when we have become the totally efficient organized organism we have always wanted to be and left all of our bumbling ineptness behind. Yet in exactly the way we come to find love and intimacy with others through vulnerability, we come […]
Why do I care?
My directly next door, as in her door is directly in front of mine, neighbor hates me. No seriously, I’m pretty sure it’s way more than just a strong dislike, I think she legitimately hates me. And it really, really bothers me. I guess I can’t say for certain it is hate but I have […]
Grabbing the Sun
I felt my heart rate jump…. I had just done a quick scan of my inbox on a cold, Saturday in January. Immediately all the things I thought I had failed to deliver, or could be doing, or should be doing, rushed into my head. “Oh shit, I never emailed him that intro!” “Oh man, […]
Edit the script
I was there again… Sitting by the East River, a warm July breeze on my face, whipping myself up into an anxious frenzy about what I thought someone else was thinking about me. Again. What the hell? I’ve gotten quite good over the years at this very thing, constantly running through in my mind a […]
Special Friends Day (and “Power Grandpas”)
I was nominated for “Special Friends Day,” about 2 weeks ago for my niece’s school and, well, since I’m not crazy, I accepted. OK, I wasn’t nominated, nor was anyone else, it’s just a day for grandparents or relatives to come in and spend some time with the kids at school. Nonetheless, I was […]
A bookend to my day
As someone who works a lot from home with an awesome (but mostly distributed) team, I have often felt as if the work day really has no end. I don’t have a set time I stop working, although my wife will often stop me, and my work will often flow right into the […]
Regret minimization framework
Jeff Bezos – Regret Minimization Framework I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately, and thankfully Bezos clarified my thoughts in a very nerdy, but helpful way: The Regret Minimization Framework. Simply put: Imagine yourself sitting in a chair at 80 looking back on your life, how can you ensure you have as few regrets […]
Focus on what you can control
(from Behavior Gap) I’m currently reading (and enjoying) The Extra 2% by Jonah Keri, which combines a lot of my favorite things (baseball, business, innovation, etc) into one package (although it frustrates me as a Reds fan to have a guy like Dusty Baker running our team instead of Joe Maddon, but I digress). In the book, […]
Grateful
To my mother: It’s been 7 years. It’s hard to believe that it has been that long, and that it has only been that long all at the same time. Sometimes I remember things as clearly as if they were yesterday, and sometimes I have trouble remembering even the simplest things at all. But […]