• On Shallow Thinking

    March 7, 2026 By nature I’m a shallow thinker. I’m quick and not too dumb so it isn’t immediately apparent but when I try to right anything of substance I start to sound like Trump, very this and really that. It’s both the point and…

  • 13 Minutes – Mar 2, 2026

    This ought to be easy, but isn’t. Not because I don’t know what to do – I’ve layered this blog with so many things that interest me that I struggle to choose what to do. Putting me in mind of Seth Godin’s constraints discussion. From…

  • 13 Minutes – It Should Be Doable

    I am so annoyed with myself. It’s been 8 months since I even looked at this site. So many reasons – but none of them really add up to “I didn’t have time”. I actually don’t allow those words in my vocabulary – I didn’t…

  • 13 Minutes Week 4

    I started out like gangbusters last week and worked on my Zettelkasten article three days in a row – then nothing. And what was odd was that I forgot. I actually didn’t even think about it. And another odd thing, while I haven’t pulled this…

  • 13 Minutes Week 3

    June 9, 2025 Wow, I’m not doing that great with this – I logged in 3 times last week. I added some quotes and vocabulary words and worked on one post, but didn’t do much else. I did what I do, prepare, prepare, prepare. Read…

  • Two Books – A Quick Take

    Two Books, Two Approaches: A Quick Take on Range and 59 Seconds I read two books this morning—Range by David Epstein and 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman. Both challenge popular wisdom, but they do it in very different ways—and with very different levels of success.…

  • 13 Minutes Week 2

    May 31, 2025 Week 2 – Pass or Fail? I logged in 4 times this week, including today. 4 of 7 is 57% – hmm, while I logged in more days than I didn’t, 57% is not a pass on any scale. And I didn’t…

  • 13 Minutes – Week 1

    May 24, 2025 Week 1 – Pass or Fail? Well, week 1 was an epic fail. This doesn’t bode well. Weeks 1 and 2 of any commitment are usually the easiest to manage, for me at least. Here is what happened? On Monday morning I…

  • 13 Minutes – Revisited – Again

    May 16th, 2025 The last time I wrote about this was March 24th, 2024 – almost 14 months ago. That’s 418 opportunities to meet this commitment. I’ve managed 100, not including today. I know this because I track these things in a spreadsheet called Word…

  • Show Your Work

    A Book about helping people find your work by Austin Kleon May 8, 2025 When I’m struggling with posting my work, I always remind myself that no one is reading it anyway – so I can write anything I want. Spend any amount of time…