If people are going to try to step all over you, be a LEGO.
— Randi Lee Harper (@randileeharper) July 15, 2015
…be a LEGO.
Dan Bailey
Advice to My 16-Year Old Self
Jen, a reader that I don’t know, challenged me for the 2015 Edition of What Shall I Write About?, with a request to write a letter of advice to my 16-year old self. Tough, but interesting. Here we go. Dear Dan, Today, you are sixteen years old. Your dad and stepmom are going to forget … Read more
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert.
— W. Béran Wolfe, Australian psychiatrist
“Find a happy person, and you will find a project.”
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
Five Things I’d REALLY Do If I Won the Lottery
1. Grant at least 20{3b4d110c5d1596d2297e6430d163d306168bc3d03da137601e3ed8beb4b12205} of my winnings to charity — Home for Life, the ASPCA, and other animal charities would likely top the list. 2. Have my own CubeSat launched, to look at the viability of an M2P2 mag sail. Because I am a giant dork. 3. Travel the world/completely nuke my bucket list. … Read more
The Last 24 Hours Plus Context
So as some of you may have noticed on Twitter/FB yesterday, things have been kind of craptastic lately. The past three consecutive weeks have been among the toughest I’ve faced since leaving the military, and while there are times I’ve thought I’d break, I seem to be starting to turn it around. Context So in … Read more
Protected: Falling Apart
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…humor is a violation of straight-line thinking.
— from How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams