A study put out by "Jake Toolson University" cites that "..being predictable is boring." - 1981, LIFE. In an interview conducted with their chief DGAF, Jake Toolson.. . Actually, he walked away from the interview. The people with answers are usually selling something. Stop being boring ❤️ Jake…
It teaches kids how to stay offline. For 7 days, your kid logs into their tablet. Opens an app. Watches me explain why they should go outside and touch grass. Here's the curriculum: Day 1: "Why screens are bad for your brain." Day 3: "The…
"AI Architect" in your LinkedIn title and resume is the new "Growth Hacker" from 2013. It's a costume, not a credential. You know what we called people who designed systems that happened to include machine learning five years ago? Engineers. Architects. Sometimes just "…
That dashboard you're staring at didn't materialize from the void. Someone chose what to count. Someone chose what not to count. When the numbers look wrong, your first instinct is to debug the math. Wrong instinct. Debug the people. Who touched this data? What were they…
My wife sent me a text that included a lot of the below philosophy. She smiled after she sent it, saying "it's incredible to look back, and reflect on how much he tried to do to us, how much he said about us to others, when all…
We build temples out of paychecks. Altars of leather seats and square footage. We hang diplomas like saints on the wall and call it arrival. The hungry years. The proving. The more, the almost, the finally. We gnaw the hours down to bone for things that will forget our names…
In first grade, Mrs. Cooper's class at Oakview Elementary, she would always play a game with the class similar to hide and seek. A classmate would hide a toy (I believe it was a leprechaun) while the rest of us would put ur heads down and waited. Once…
I watch Seinfeld. I watch Seinfeld every. single. night. I’ve done this for years. My wife has never seen a single episode of Seinfeld, but she can quote it like clockwork, and fill in the punch lines because she’s heard the entire series 320x times. When I’m…
What if it happens and there's no way out. The not-knowing doesn't kill me. It keeps me too alert to die. Alone is where the walls learn your name. They watch. They wait. They know the game. Then the chest tightens its gri a fist closing…
There is something that outlives the body. There is something that knows your voice before your name. There is something that forgives the wound before the apology. There is something that holds the silence when the room empties. There is something that buries its dead and sets the table anyway.…