Personal Updates/Introduction It wasn’t as if the holidays perpetually kicked my ass, it was more of a sporadic ass-kicking. My mental health has also been swingingly wildly through the “OK” to “Oh God I am gonna drown in my own tears”. So, it was a tough month for me on a lot of fronts and…
Well, this was a surprise. Josh Dishwasher himself actually commented on my article from last January that reviewed his article Some Advice for the Rich from the Poor. John says most of my objections are “answered” here but I’m not so sure. For the record, I stand by everything I said before. I don’t think…
Rob Lucas, a programmer, posted in the New Left Review 62 of March-April 2010 writes that, This morning, floating through that state between sleep and consciousness in which you can become aware of your dreams as dreams immediately before waking, I realized that I was dreaming in code again. This has been occurring on and…
Fun Fact: I make fun of myself a lot. I mean, more than your average person does. Sometimes I’ll just use it as a “clever” way to deflect compliments, other times as a shoddy way to make a cheap joke and I’ll even include it in sentences where I’m explaining how I insult myself a…
One of my patrons shared an article about 11 jobs for people who don’t want to work a lot. He said he was skeptical about some of them but thought that maybe I could find something useful out of it. Well, I didn’t get much out of the article itself. I can’t really confirm or…
(Nick’s Notes: This is the third part of my four part series on Isaac Morehouse’s ideas on work from his blog, you can find part one here and part two here) Isaac has a podcast episode on whether we should think of imagination as work. Now, it seems pretty clear at first glance that I’d…
Do what you love is something that’s been challenged elsewhere but I want to re-open this challenge via an article from Inc.com called “The Danger of Doing What You Love“. Here’s the main point: I raised my company. Nurtured it. Watched it grow. It taught me lessons that I never would have learned otherwise, and for…