An Experiment in Scotch

We’re ten days into the Lenten Exper­i­ment and over­all, I have to say it hasn’t been as hard as I would have expected. First some stats. In the first 10 days, I’ve got­ten up by 5 AM seven times, by 5:30 2 times and by 6:30 once. That last time was the sec­ond day when …

Whether it’s in soft­ware, sports, music, art, lit­er­a­ture, what­ever. Build what you love. Noth­ing says it bet­ter than that. Via Reg Braithwaite

So some of you will remem­ber that I made some Lenten com­mit­ments and here’s the point where I update you since I know you’ve been anx­iously await­ing all my amaz­ing self-discovery. Right. Any­way, I do feel like jot­ting down a lit­tle bit about the expe­ri­ence. We’ll start with the suc­cess first. For 40 days and …

I’ve been med­i­tat­ing for 3 days now and even in that short period of time, I’ve come to real­ize how dif­fi­cult it is to do well. As I walked Scooter Wednes­day night, it occurred to me that my con­scious­ness is not unlike an untrained dog on a leash. If you have a dog, you know …

The gap between zero and one. What an inter­est­ing con­cept that is. If you think about it for even just a lit­tle bit, it becomes pro­found. The dif­fi­culty of jump­ing that gap keeps most of us from ever doing any­thing at all. A sim­i­lar con­cept is that the pur­suit of per­fec­tion is the bar­rier to …

Life is far too short to eat sand­wiches made on bad bread.