I Gave Myself Permission to Bomb

I have a somewhat unusual comfort with public speaking. I once walked into a conference with almost no understanding of what the organizers wanted me to do and hopped on the stage in front of a couple of hundred people with hardly a skipped heartbeat or extra drop of...

Our Best is Inevitably Imperfect. Dammit.

I can’t tell you exactly what alchemy happened when I was on the TEDx stage in Floyd, Virginia in 2013. I stepped on nervous and excited. I had a moment of utter blankness while the hundred people in the audience held their breath and the however-many people watching...

Am I outraged or am I just sleepy?

Some years ago, a study was done that followed around 5,000 parole hearings. The researchers were curious to discover trends in decisions to grant parole or not. They did, indeed, find a strong correlation and while you might think it was to how regretful the...

I Get Fat in Greensboro

This past weekend, Theresa and I visited my family and I noticed something that I’ve only cued into consciously in the last few years: I get fat when I visit my family. I don’t mean I put on a lot of weight due to my mom’s yummy cooking and the splurges I allow myself...

Boundaries, Kazoos, and Inherent Value

Last week, I made an argument for creating boundaries by way of the movie Gremlins: Avoiding getting the adorable mogwai Gizmo wet meant that Gizmo didn’t have to go through all the hatching pain and that humanity didn’t have to suffer the creation of evil mogwais...

Starting a Business is like Falling in Love

There are things that we prepare for when we move from other-employed to self-employed. We think about what we’ll need to earn and, I hope, the increased tax burden involved in getting to that number. We think about buying our own health insurance and the structure of...

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