Are you up against insurmountable odds? Are you in need of an extraordinary amount of training in a very short period of time? Then have I got good news for you. I can’t help you master a mystical martial art before avenging your long-lost cousin in a tournament of mortal combat, but I can give you the soundtrack to do it to. Is this the first playlist of its kind? Hardly. Is it the best? Undoubtedly. In no particular order,…
You there. Yes, you, the person reading this blog. Do you have a smartphone? Has your smartphone given you an immediate window into the greater world and a lifeline to those closest to you? Has your smartphone turned your waking life into a wondrous Skinner Box of unending shiny lights and flickering serotonin doses? Has your uninhibited access to the internet gifted you with the ability to Google “what if cats had opposable thumbs” at 3AM only to find that…
While I plan to continue rounding up old notes and reviewing interesting ideas, my initial goal with this blog was to get comfortable with creative writing to ease back into a larger world-building project I’ve had on the back-burner for years now. The working name for the project I have in my head currently is “Wardens of the Wyrd”. This poem is just a bit of color for the reader looking into the mechanics of how a certain piece of…
I’m excited to take some time to review one of my favorite books: The Human Use of Human Beings. I’ve always had an interest in computers and human behavior, and at it’s heart this book is meant to be an examination of how we might define the intersection of those two things. Before I get too much into the book though, I do feel the need to spend just a bit of time talking about the author. Who Was Norbert…
More Exciting Clerical Work Going through more notes, I found a few snippets and links from a topic that caught my attention nearly five years ago. There’s been just a tiny bit more research in that area since 2015, so I figured it’d be fun to give a super high-level breakdown on it and share something mildly interesting. What is a Harbinger of Failure? Back towards the end of 2015, a group of marketing professors published a paper titled, “Harbingers…
My Very Exciting Clerical Work I’ve recently reclaimed a significant enough amount of free time that I’m finally able to revisit and catalogue about a decade’s worth of notes. On everything. In all of the formats. I know that while for most the sound of digging through old papers and hyperlinks and then putting them in one neatly organized location rings as dull and awful and boring work, but I’m actually pretty excited about it. The first interesting stray topic…