Paper Therapy – Day 2 30-Day Writing Challenge Journaling and I have never really got along. Over the past 6 years, I’ve tried to maintain some kind of routine with reflection via journaling, but I failed each time. Even though I ended up quitting each time I was convinced that journaling was worth it, so…

Changing Opinions – Day 1 30-Day Writing Challenge The mind is a funny thing – it’s always changing.  In the past, I’ve pictured people that change their minds often as wishy-washy, flaky, or not certain… This assumption is wrong. I, like many of you, lacked the context to know that very intelligent and reflective people…

Earthly Homes – Audio Throughout my childhood, I spent a lot of time at construction sites helping build homes, but I never really cared about the theory or processes. I just helped my dad when he needed me and did as he asked, without ever being curious about the “why” behind what we were doing. …

I come from a long line of physical workers, people that have spent their entire lives on farms, construction sites, and mechanical workshops. And up to this point I’ve avoided that life as if it were a black hole, sucking you in forever. For some reason, I envisioned life presenting me with a binary choice…

As children, we’re shaped by the communities we’re born into. A community can be labeled through different perspectives such as socioeconomics, race, nationality, ideology, etc. The community that shaped my perspective originates from a small-town middle-class family, with a heavy focus on physical labor and long hours of work.  Many people born into this situation…

Imagine lying down on a hospital bed with many different IVs connected to your body and each connector has a specific role in keeping you alive. Some connectors will be more important than others. If one connector is removed you won’t die immediately, but over time your body will start to fail if it’s not…

Energy – Energy is what makes the world go round, so it’s important we’re able to figure out ways to make our society’s lifeblood sustainable for the long term.  When speaking about sustainable energy, there are really three perspectives you can take I’m personally a fan of saving the planet because you know… It’s what…

The process of evolution from a single-cell organism to intelligent humans exploring the moon is an amazing feat of nature, but it’s not over. Over millions of years, we’ve slowly evolved into Homo Sapiens through luck, timing, and a bit of genetic chaos.  To put this luck and chaos into perspective, about 150,000 years ago…

All futurists are wrong, some less than others. Whenever listening to someone pontificate about humanity’s future there are usually two major stories being told. One is utopian where everything is perfect (heaven). The second is dystopian where we’re all doomed for eternity (hell). – It sounds a lot like a book I was told to…

What happens when you’re exponentially growing, but realize there’s an inevitable ceiling to this growth followed by a collapse? Is there a way to stop before hitting that ceiling? Can we raise that ceiling?  This is the big question asked in “Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in…