My online swimming coach has a video on YouTube titled (in click-bait fashion), “What swimming will do to your body”. In the video, he shows pictures of male and female olympic swimmers with fabulous bodies that are muscular, ripped, and toned without an ounce of fat. He then goes on to explain that the average…
I Won
I was listening to a podcast last week about the grind and hustle involved with building a business. The speakers worked hard (and got lucky) and as a result, had made millions from their businesses while attaining a modest level of fame and accolades. They had already attained success and were expanding their businesses. As…
Plausible But Wrong
Even though I’ve been retired for 5 years, I am still interested in technology and business. So it’s probably no surprise that I’ve been following AI. I’ve messed around with various free AI systems – mostly ChatGPT and it’s competitors and found them to be more hype than anything else currently. This week, I tested…
No New Car
I take my car to the dealer for its annual inspection for the past 5 years because the dealer gives me free oil changes for life. In addition to the mandatory annual NC state inspection and oil change, I have them rotate the tires, do alignments and perform other routine Honda maintenance. Each year, I…
Lame-ification
In general, my default practice is to only load essential apps that I use regularly on my phone. I don’t want to provide data about my location, internet habits, app usage or any other private data to app providers and their “trusted partners”. So for me, that means I’ll never install Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and…
Sex, Drugs & Social Media
In recent years there’s been a lot of ranting about the “negative effects of social media on children” from media pundits, politicians, tech journalists, sociologists, authors, teachers and anyone else with (ironically) a social media account. Something all of these opiners have in common is that they are old. Like old people of every generation,…
The Right Crowd
In a post last week, I wrote about the wrong crowd. This week, I was thinking about the people who make up my community of loose connections. These are people who I interact with on a regular basis – some everyday, some weekly and some monthly. These people are all admirable. They are kind, conscientious…
Monastic Appeal
In Michael Easter’s book, “The Scarcity Brain” he writes about the Our Lady Of Guadalupe Monastery in New Mexico and spending several days with the monks who live and work there. These monks live according to the Rule of St. Benedict, which proscribes a life focused on work and prayer for this isolated, self-sustaining monastery….
Que Pasa
Yesterday, as I was about to enter the vet to get my dog’d nails cut man approached me and said, “Un momento?” I immediately expected him to ask me for money, since that seems to be what anyone who approaches me in a parking lot does. Instead he showed me his phone, pointed to some…
How To Lose My Business
Coca Cola and Pepsi lost me as a lifetime customer a few years ago when both took advantage of the pandemic and post-pandemic years to raise their prices 3x. Being price gouged irritated me more than wanting the pleasure of drinking my daily Diet Coke & Diet Mt. Dew. F**k both of them. Goodbye and…