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I will never cease to be amazed by how often an assumption I have made about a person turns out to be wrong. I’m not the only one. We all tend to be very, very quick to form a picture of a person and assume we know everything about them. It’s a shame, because when…

Many writings about achieving great success talk about business success, which tends to be pretty easy once mastery is achieved. People rarely talk about achieving mastery. One can achieve business success without any mastery. But mastery itself cannot be faked. If you want to master a thing, you better be ready to put in the…

This was my umpteenth Super Bowl, and I’ve never not enjoyed one, although this game is probably the most boring in my memory. That said, I would be a liar if I said I even knew who was playing until two weeks ago. Football is not one of the things I follow. Nor is most…

For every one of your hashtags, like every photo that has been tagged with that hashtag in the last 24 hours and follow every one of these accounts Comment on every photo you see in your feed with something complimentary Like every photo you see in your feed Stop thinking that Instagram is for your…

Well, it’s February 1, which means I’ve successfully written 31 blog posts…one twelfth of the way to the end of the year. I’m learning some things about my own blogging practices: If I write in the morning it’s far easier I tend to write my best long-form posts from flashes of inspiration throughout the day…

Actually, my friend found my hat. Thanks to friendship, technology, New York City’s low crime rate, germaphobia, and a little bit of luck, my hat has been recovered. It is a good hat. It is a warm hat. I bought it in Finland. I’ve had it three weeks. I will have it for many weeks…

It was an expensive hat. I’ve had it for three weeks. It’s not my fault. It escaped from my pocket in between dinner, Uber, and home. I wonder why expensive things always disappear and I still have the cheap ass sunglasses I won in a raffle in middle school. I lost my hat. I am…

Occasionally you encounter a public policy so obviously wrong, that it’s a wonder that it’s even allowed to happen in the first place. The moral clarity around such issues is striking. Often, one indication of its wrongness is that it galvanizes people who would otherwise disagree on most consequential political issues. Civil forfeiture is one…

Ron Swanson happens to be one of the greatest characters ever written for television. Given that his birthday is [redacted] I figured I’d list some of my favorite quotes from him. It’s pointless for a human to paint scenes of nature when they can go outside and stand in it. It’s always a good idea…

Much has been said about the universality of music: something that has existed in one form or another in every human culture since arguably before we even descended from the trees. I’m currently on page 8 of 20 learning George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for the piano, the most technically difficult piece I’ve ever attempted to learn…