getting ahead in a cutthroat environment means beefing up the resume and coming up with character references to prove you know your stuff, yet 99.9% of the time they don’t get to the character at the heart of the person. To this day I’ve had 3 great / unconventional life references, these transcend RTFM skills… one of them [...]

5 minutes this morning, I thought, wow, what a game that’s being played in the developed world.  Finally beginning to realize I’ve never hated the players but didn’t care much for the game. What do our tanks, cinema and pop culture have in common?  They are all working to make the world a sedate place, [...]

A buddy of mine encouraged me to get into this line / sector of working professing, ‘see the world for what it really is,’ which has been both a blessing and a curse — I’ve got to see a lot of different versions of what people consider ‘right’, and I’ve seen disparity on so many accounts. [...]

Thinking about the push / pull balance b/w the brain and heart and how that dictates decisions you make in life this evening.  I don’t know much about Marcus Aurelius, but this quote is excellent Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with [...]

The relativity of life — I’ve been to a few concerts in my time, but honestly one of the most fun gigs I’ve ever attended was Bad Company at the garrison in Baghdad. For a band, talk about hoping you don’t suck — how’s about having a couple thousand fans all having machine guns. Clausewitz [...]

Thinking about the city of Dubai tonight, and how a few days in that city will probably change my life forever.  I’m looking at splurging for a downtown 5 star hotel, The Palace – The Old Town, which is situated right between the biggest mall in the city and the Burj Khalifa, the tallest thing [...]

if a tavern is where people go to solve the world’s problems over a few brews, the walkabout is where the individual soul goes to unwrap their internal mysteries.  if i were to have gained nothing from this experience other than an extraordinary glimpse into my inner workings while not having to deal with society, [...]