I remember having a discussion with my friend Dave Morris about comments, sometimes on a blog and more often on social media. Some of the comments we get don’t add much to the conversation, but most add a whole lot. So that prompted me to write this short piece and let you know that if

“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

I’m embarking on NaNoWriMo and wanted to get ahead on my 50,000 words to start things off. So rather than post some fresh material I thought I’d refresh some older stuff that I rather enjoyed writing here, there and everywhere. It’s my Top 10 Opinionated Countdown…in no particular order. Enjoy. 1. Struggling vs. Smuggling Wherein

Gee…thanks, Google. Why’d you organize my RSS bookshelf while I was busy Halloween-ing? Not cool. This is why I use Reeder.