When I was younger, I wanted a lot of things – in a very literal sense. I didn’t just look at objects as the ‘next thing to get’ as much as I viewed them as fulfilling a part of me that I felt was missing. It wasn’t just about filling a missing void, however; there […]
Ever since I was a boy, I remember feeling deeply. As an adult, I’ve discovered that age hasn’t done anything to reduce – or mute – the way that I feel, as it has with the energy I have in the morning when I get out of bed. In many ways, it’s dawning on me […]
When I worked in Silicon Valley, there was a common trend I noticed when people would introduce new companies/concepts to somebody unfamiliar; they would use existing companies to describe the concept. For example – “It’s like the Slack of Amazon and Ebay” meaning, it’s a cross-channel communication platform that allows users to have a centralized […]
For a good portion of my life, I’ve felt that I’m not good enough, smart enough, successful enough or wealthy enough. You could say that ‘enough deficiency’ has been a central theme of my years as a human being. When I was an aspiring NBA player, playing in recreation center basketball leagues, I went over […]
I once heard a phrase that goes something like this: “Nobody ever wrote a speech while they were drowning.” My version goes something like this: “You can’t have a conversation with somebody when you’ve got fire ants crawling up your leg and biting you.” For the last few weeks and years, I’ve had more conversations […]
There are a lot of things I’ve learned since getting the 944 in November. For one, a 40 year-old car is a lot more than an engine on a set of wheels and tires; it’s got personality, soul, spirit and attitude. It’s also something that you learn will take a lifetime of maintenance, upkeep and […]
“Timing is everything” or so I hear. When you think about the massive consequences even a few short seconds can have on your life, it really makes you think differently about the seconds that we have in our day. For example, to the person who nearly got into a car accident; missing certain death by […]
As a teenager, I found myself in a home with parents that were incredibly conservative. Part of their parenting involved restricting the types of music I was allowed to listen to. At that time, P.O.D. was hot on the scene, and I remember having drawn-out arguments with them about the faith-position of the band. Despite […]
Today, something happened to me and Atlas that I’ll remember for the rest of my life. It was one of those unexpected things that catch you completely off-guard and change way you feel in a split second. It wasn’t something bad, either. Rather, it was a sponeous interaction from a stranger that put the biggest […]
There’s a beautiful thing that happens to a caterpillar before it becomes a butterfly; its entire body transforms into liquid, in a process known as ‘chrysalis’, before it becomes a butterfly. While there are a lot of important steps a caterpillar takes before taking flight as a butterfly – such as gorging itself for half […]