D-Squared

After graduating with my bachelors I was handed a certificate, wished good luck for my life, then quickly shoved off stage for the other cogs in line to receive the same treatment.  Luckily, I was part of the small minority that actually had a job waiting for me after graduation. This job was based in…

Interconnected – Day 6 30-Day Writing Challenge Let’s go through a simple mental exercise… What would happen to you if the sun burnt out? What if all the plants died? What if we removed all the oxygen from our atmosphere?  How would you cope…?  Roughly 12,000 years ago when the agriculture revolution began, we began…

A Joker’s Life – Day 5 30-Day Writing Challenge “Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV” ― Morty (Rick & Morty) One of the best quotes, from one of the best shows ever made.  If you’ve played a card game with a traditional deck of cards, you know there…

Doing more with less – Day 4 30-Day Writing Challenge To be “productive” and to be “busy” are two very different things.  I’ve spent my entire corporate career fighting off busyness to actually get anything done. Sadly, there seems to be a psychological virus spreading where people pride themselves on having a filled calendar always…

Pessimistic Futures – Day 3 30-Day Writing Challenge The world is in a weird place at the moment, at least from one man’s perspective.  All of humanity has been placed in “time-out” inside their homes to prevent the spread of a pandemic, American society has finally hit a tipping point for police brutality on minority…