Mike Vardy

I’ve been paying particular attention to Todd Henry lately. Not only because of the fact we both are enduring Cincinnati Bengals fans, but because he’s the man behind Accidental Creative — and a book based on his work there, The Accidental Creative. I’m glad I’ve been reading up on his work because while I know […]

A quote taken from this week’s Talking is Dead podcast: …I go to drink the coffee and it’s just past that point of where it’s no longer warm, and I have to decide whether I’m going to heat it up again…so, nuke it — which is an amazing taste additive for coffee — or if

I have always observed this day, but this year I had an experience while travelling that brought more to this day than I’d ever thought about before. I was in LAX waiting for my flight home and decided to go to McDonald’s to grab a meal while I waited. I stood inline behind a tall

I was having a discussion with my friend Dave Morris tonight about comments that you receive on your website. Some of the comments we get don’t add much to the conversation, but most add a whole lot. I really appreciate the comments left here — and on articles I have written (and will write) elsewhere.

“You never rest.” – Ben Folds Five, Battle of Who Could Care Less There’s a lot of pushing going on in my life lately. It’s the good kind of pushing, but it’s still pushing. And when you’ve got a lot of it going on, you tend to get tired easier. Your constitution also gets compromised

“It’s hard to judge an era while still in the middle of it, but from all accounts I think this Age of Workplace Philosopher represents an exciting shift in our thinking about work and happiness. The more seriously we struggle with the question of “What defines a good working life?”, the better off we are.”

Not a huge fan of country music, but there’s a message here.

I’ve been taking a variant of these all day. I got some writing done, but not much. I’m fine with that because I’m not fine as a whole today. So, I guess I did enough. Now that I’ve written this, I’ll start working on getting fine again. Oh, and Breaking Bad just showed up on