CompanyNovember 19, 2024My problem is that I have no idea what my favorite musical is. Not even close, like a top 3 or favorite Golden Age, modern, movie, etc. musical. Sure, most people don’t, but most people also don’t tell every stranger they meet that they like show tunes (when the conversation naturally shifts towards music). Most people don’t face the question often, and when they do, they haven’t pinned any part of their identity to it. read more...Fall Blog UpdatesOctober 14, 2024Happy Belated Fall! Usually I just make updates to this site without telling anyone or drawing attention to them, but I’ve accumulated a few things that need changing, and these might go better if people knew about them. Contact I’ve added a separate Contact page to my site. As always, you are welcome to email me. (Or talk to me in person or over the phone for people who already know me). read more...A Stupid Argument For StupiditySeptember 11, 2024This post was originally submitted to Adam Mastroianni’s blog post contest. Adam is the clever mind behind Experimental History with funny bones to pick with peer review and productivity culture. I found him through his legit psychology study written up as a blog post, “Things could be better”. My favorite might be about forgetting things we learned in school. If it seems like I’m linking an awful lot, it’s because I think so highly of him, and it’s hard to pick just one to recommend. read more...On Daily Mood TrackingAugust 25, 2024The only reason I’m writing this is that I let slip to a friend1 that I’ve been tracking my mood daily for the past 4 and a half years, and I couldn’t credibly argue that the practice hasn’t conveyed some kind of expert status despite the fact that all I did was tell my phone how my day was whenever it asked me. Most of these ramblings have only come to me within the past month as I’ve tried to corral my experiences into thought. read more...Three VoicesJune 13, 2024Before this devolved into a Marathon / Resolutions / Sundance blog, people used to ask how I decided what to write about. The true and incomplete answer I would give was that writing is my way of getting tired thoughts out of my head. However brilliant an idea seems when it first comes to me, it will become boring if I let myself keep thinking it. There’s something about writing, like finally listening to that catchy song, that unsticks things from my mind. read more...All posts