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Why are you laughing? Decoding the mystery of humor
Why are you laughing? It’s a question I’ve asked myself and that’s what Peter McGraw and Joel Warner set out to answer in their book, The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny.Over...
View ArticleFound Quotes: Storytelling, Art, and Time
“Pixar movies, on the other hand, would live forever. He believed, as I do, that because they dig for deeper truths, our movies will endure, and he found beauty in that idea. John talks about “the...
View ArticleNetflix Recommendation – Short Term 12
Occasionally I come across the rare movie that cannot be improved upon. The script, the acting, the soundtrack, the directing–all of it aligns in the cinematic Rubik’s cube to make something great....
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You Are Contagious
“What do you recommend?”About 20% of the time I ask someone that question, I regret it. This was one of those times.I was at the Grand Canyon. The Mrs. and I were driving from Scottsdale to the Grand...
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Ever Wonder Why?
Everyone who uses mouthwash does so because they want cleaner and whiter teeth. How many people, including myself until recently, consider how strange it is to attempt to whiten your teeth with a...
View ArticleFakebook
There are a number of clever Facebook and “social media in real life” spoofs, but this is the best I’ve seen, especially if you enjoy slightly dark humor. To lighten the mood after that video, watch...
View ArticleFound Quotes
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.” – Bruce Lee“Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come...
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
After reading over 200 books in the last 3 years, this is something that’s stuck out as a theme across many books: you become what you think about. Your external world is often a reflection of your...
View ArticleParadoxes of Life
“A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason” – GK ChestersonIf you go through life expecting everything to make perfect sense, you’re going to...
View ArticleTake My Money
I’m a bit of an expert in picking stocks. As someone who is early to a lot of trends, like putting butter in my coffee, I’ve now seen several companies of which I’m a customer go on to be wildly...
View ArticleHow To Get and Keep Someone’s Attention
I don’t like watching the nightly news. While falling asleep, I like the image of portly, fluffy sheep leaping fences running through my mind instead of the local murders of the day.Yet, in the last...
View ArticleA Christmas Story
I don’t reread books very often, especially not in the same year. Yet, this week I’ve been pulled back into reading Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story (essays taken from the also great In God We Trust:...
View ArticleThe Time You Have In Jelly Beans
I like January 1st. It’s Tabula Rasa. A blank slate. The world is your oyster and you can start anew. But January 2nd through the rest of winter is a long miserable shiver-fest. Everyone scurries...
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Can You Rewire Your Brain?
It took me 2 minutes to type that headline. Today, I’m switching to the Colemak keyboard layout. I do a lot of typing and the Colemak layout promises to be faster and more efficient–if I can rewire my...
View ArticleWhat I’m Binge Watching This Weekend
I’ve made it no secret that I’m obsessed with the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi. I’ve literally seen it at least two dozen times. The music. The cinematography. The inspiration. The mouth-watering...
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Switching to Colemak: One Month Later
Exactly one month has passed since I impulsively switched my keyboard layout from QWERTY to Colemak in the hopes of faster and more efficient typing (dream big, Ben!).Learning Colemak has been a battle...
View ArticleVideos I Can’t Stop Watching
About a year ago I started collecting my favorite videos in swipe files to give me ideas and inspiration for my own. The videos below are some of my favorites, many of which are by Casey Neistat who...
View ArticleMeetings (or a Video I Made)
If there is one thing people love in this world, meetings are not it. That said, you might enjoy a video I wrote and filmed that’s all about bad meetings. Watch it below (or click here).
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Junk Mail
Junk Mail from Voyager on Vimeo.This video hit me with the feels. Worth taking 11 minutes to watch it.
View ArticleA Definition of Comedy (and things I learned on vacation)
The wife and I recently went all out for a vacation. The problem is that I’m a maximizer ( which I learned from The Paradox of Choice). If I care about something, I want to have the best version...
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