Intentionally Vicarious: Having more fun than anyone else you know! - Self-Actualization - Lifelong Learning - Think About It - Explore - Try New Things - Life A Full Life
You’ve got a good job, you’re paying all the bills, you’ve got awesome people in your life... Now what? What else??? What next??? How on earth do you sort through all the options of fulfilling, exciting things you COULD do? You gotta’ be intentionally vicarious... Listen to in-depth stories of what other successful people are doing to reach self-actualization!
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- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
Polarization Over Abortion Is Political Media Nonsense
DO NOT get swept up into the money-chasing, "Simplify & Polarize" strategy of the politicians and political media. The fact is, 85% of America is in general agreement about what abortion policy shoul…
Episode 120 - (Don't Get) Framed By The Media
Political polarization in America is a MYTH!!! Follow the money and it's easy to see how the media manipulates into believing this baloney.
The Scariest Echo Chamber On Earth
Living and/or working in an echo chamber is safe and comfortable, but unconscionably lazy and dumb. It is SO, so easy to intentionally - or accidentally - place oneself in an environment that constan…
Episode 118 - Best of Times Or Worst of Times?
It's the BEST of times. Not even close. It's HUGELY better to be alive today than ever.
Episode 117 - Bullshidology 101
I just got an invitation to connect on LinkedIn from a guy whose profile headline is, “A preeminent expert in leadership development through inclusion.” Not just any expert, a preeminent expert! Are …
Episode 116 - Ikigai ...or something like it
Simple, profound and extremely helpful for career planning. Dive deeper and Ikigai becomes a set of guidelines for your whole life.
More Pandemic Perspective
As we all slowly begin to emerge from our shelter in place lockdown we need to continue to examine and think about what happened, what we did in response to this pandemic and what we should do next.
Quic Thought 65 - I Trust My T Cells
Am I a crazy daredevil, or am I hopelessly risk averse? No offense, but I don’t give a damn what your answer to that question may be.
American Politics - Division By Design
Trump’s ability to be an effective President of the United States of America and Commander-In-Chief is incidental to the primary goal of the Dems & Republicans, which is to ensure the ongoing growth …
Quick Thought 64 - Perspective
This COVID crisis is serious, but... it's also merely the lastest catastrophe in a centuries-long chain of catastrophes. Everything will be fine.
A Capitalist’s Path to Community Service
The short answer to "What's a capitalist's path to community service?" Implement a Willful Impact Business Unit that makes a profit and climbs the Hierarchy of Community Service.
Quick Thought 63 - It's STILL Half-Full!
So the COVID crisis got you down? Consider this thought from M. Thomas Blalock, III...
“Hate the pandemic. Love the opportunity.”
Episode 112 - Reopening the Economy vs. the Value of a Human Life
Like it or not you, me and everyone else we know is part and parcel of placing a dollars and cents value on a human life. Get your head around that!
Quick Thought 62 - Sunset the CARES Act
All of it! It all needs to become null and void. The CARES Act got passed in a gigantic hurry. I’m OK with that. BUT... When the crisis is over, the CARES Act needs to end with it. If parts of it mak…
Quick Thought 61 - The Constitution ...amazing!
Episode 110 - "Damn The Post Office" Revisited
Seems like I touched a few nerves with my “Whither the Post Office” episode a couple of weeks ago. Enough so that I feel compelled to respond to a few things that emerged as objections to my perspect…
What’s a libertarian to do? What’s an AMERICAN to do?
With politicians and bureaucrats using crises to suck up more power for themselves, we Americans must insist upon and/or take it upon ourselves to accomplish 3 things:
- ALL “corona-legislation,” that…
Quick Thought 60 - The Letter Sweater
It was obsolete and dopey. And I never did wear it. But I still knew where it was after the 4+ decades and 11 homes I’ve had since my collegiate days.
Episode 109 - The Agony of the Zero-Sum Game
A Zero-Sum game = Higher Costs = Lower Quality = Nothing Left to Invest in Innovation = No Progress. Seriously now, is that a good idea?
Quick Thought 59 - Perspective on Premature Pestilence Panic
Let's keep things in perspective. We survived bubonic plague, SARS, HIV and all manner of other biological crises. Not that it isn't serious, but don't get crazy!