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It’s hot and it’s dry and the wind is blowing, hard. On summer days like this, the Great American Southwest feels like God’s own hairdryer. No place feels quite right and nobody really suits me and the one person I most want to be with isn’t available. My eyes are on the horizon and my mind is cl...
In my last article, I compared the occasionally severe emotional turbulence of life to an out-of-control spin in an airplane; a situation that can be fatal if left uncorrected. The analogy still serves; the steps to recovery are uncannily similar in both cases. Situational Awareness You have to...
We experience our lives initially through our senses as a series of sights, sounds, smells and so on. Later we recall and modify the memories that were created by our senses. Together, our senses and memories create “life” in our minds. And therein lies the challenge and the opportunity. As creat...
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronaut. I grew up in the age of manned rockets and like most boys my age, imagined traveling through space and exploring new planets. The reality of what it took to be an astronaut soon clashed with my fleeting childhood fantasy, however, and I realized not...
It’s a nebulous construct, poorly defined at best. “Love” is a word used to describe an emotion, a commitment, a gut feeling. It is also a common excuse for bad behavior ranging from wall-punching to mass murder.And love is by far the most powerful human motivator. Crazy Little Thing Called Love...
It’s more than boredom. Ennui is a restlessness, a detached dissatisfaction with life. A soul-sucking downward spiral of lost productivity and cheap dopamine hits. There is a huge wave of distracted children and listless, unfulfilled adults right now. Seemingly benign in the short-term, I believe...
I was stunned when I got back. The restrooms had been tagged as “unsafe” by some governmental authority and locked shut. People were sleeping in the mud between the buildings. Valuable equipment was missing, and the people I had left in charge were nowhere to be found.I called my partner: “Have y...
Have you ever been so sad that it felt like a physical pain, like you couldn’t breathe? Has someone betrayed you so thoroughly, so unexpectedly that you walked around in a daze, thinking, “How did I not see this coming?” Perhaps you have experienced a place and time so perfect, so right that you ...
It is the spring of 2024, and we find ourselves in the beginning stages of AI-phobia. It’s the latest fad-fear (next to, you know, global thermonuclear destruction). “AI is going to take all our jobs!” “AI is going to enslave us because it’s smarter!” “Just wait until it develops consciousness!” ...
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.- J.R.R. Tolkien (speaking as Gandalf)If you read my work on even a semi-regular basis, you will know that I’m pretty existentially aware (and if not, welcome :)). I think about the “big” questions like, “Why are we here?” “Where ...
