Category: Musings
Posted on February 5, 2023
The Infinite Variabilities of Taste
Taste is a funny concept. You can have good taste or bad, acquired taste or popular. The one thing we all have in common is we each have our own taste, be that for food, media, or people. …
Updated on February 5, 2023
ChatGPT, So Hot Right Now
“A wise man can get more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” – Baltasar Gracian They’ve done it. They went and ruined my writing career before it ever had a chance, and they …
Posted on November 27, 2022
Humility – Leadership’s Most Important Facet
When you search ‘leadership books’ on Amazon, it returns over 30,000 results. I won’t even try to quantify the number of blogs, podcasts, newsletters, sermons, and social media posts on the subject. There must be billions of words …
Posted on November 20, 2022
The Three Questions of Life
The verdict is in: life is hard. Show me a person who claims they have never struggled and I will show you a liar. Of life’s many obstacles, understanding it is often the most difficult. Anyone can put …
Posted on September 25, 2022
Joining the Military: A Tale Told in Three Parts
Our society has an unfortunate tendency. We expect children on the cusp of adulthood to know what they want to do with their lives before graduating from high school, regardless of further need for emotional and maturity development. …
Posted on September 11, 2022
A Short Repaste
I struggle with long sentences. Speaking them, writing them, thinking them. Trying to limit my verbosity ends poorly. So here is my nth attempt to do so. Each sentence here will be chopped in half. I warn you …
Posted on June 20, 2022
A New Journey
I write this with my newborn son sleeping just a few feet away, grunting in that way newborns do to charm their way into our hearts. I look at him and think of all the possibilities ahead of …
Posted on April 24, 2022
The Addictive Nature of False Productivity
I appreciate putting in the minimum effort required for a given situation. Some high-minded busybodies might call such a thing laziness, and I take offense to that. They’re right, but I’m still offended. My preferences, however, have allowed …
Updated on April 10, 2022
Trilogies, Artist Intent, and Why You’re Wrong
There is a right way and a wrong way to watch Lord of the Rings, and I will fight you if you say otherwise.
Updated on April 10, 2022
Americans and Responsibility
Max Brooks fascinates me. A best-selling author of works like World War Z, he also speaks to organizations about preparing for future crisis response actions and maintains dual fellowships at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy …
