The paradox of loneliness
To dine alone or bowl alone are events that blend strangeness and familiarity. Yet, they, too, are entirely social. The export of one human mind...
Author: Wells Baum
Outside the training data
We chase the most interesting type of bullshit. The imagination lights up like a Christmas tree when the immediate world dissipates around us, and the...
The book look
Hopping from one book cover to another, we taste the one that deserves the second look. The anti-library sells in images, the library promotes with...
To the moon
So little it’s immeasurable — that’s how improvement works. Effort is compounding. To remain elastic means to remain wide awake. The template for true consistency...
Too content for content
Time, infinitely manufactured, trains our brain to think forever. Eternity remains a distraction. In reality, time is scarce, the waning seconds escaping like quicksand. “One...
Into the sinkhole
The river of worries, always tangled up in the present. There are none more inundating than the pervasive daggers, unwanted and given the majority position....
Expecting the least expected
Taking a stand, gradually and then suddenly. The forever longs and forever hopes of doing something urge an itch. It’s the experience that radically transforms...
Virtually experienced, hardly seen
We record events, to realize that they’re happening — not necessarily that we want to experience them. The aperture opens the lens to reality, the...
Rightsizing life
The reduction of ambition rightsizes one’s life. Suddenly, those magnetic forces, trophies, hefty pocketbooks, and rich attractions lose their lure. All the stylization and mimetic...
The visionary compass
To be interesting, we have to be interested, that is, an atypical perspective discovers atypicality in our surroundings. Different is a way of seeing. But...
A catalog of emotions
We live with a catalog of emotions, whipsawing between highs and lows. Most of the undulation is due to poor internal weather. We are not...
Together as spiritual completeness
It is human desire to share. It is also human desire to compete. The two — cooperation and competition — bleed into each other to...