Category: Time
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Golf and the importance of sometimes not keeping score
I played golf on Sunday with a couple buddies at an old public course ten or fifteen miles east of Raleigh. I didn’t keep score for myself. Now, before you call me a communist or worse, let me say I’m a firm believer that “keeping score” is generally an important part of…
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Are your DIY projects making you less happy?
Have you heard of this channel on cable called HGTV? It’s a very strange channel. Like, don’t ever let an adult with cable tell you they don’t watch cartoons anymore, because HGTV is just cartoons for adults. It’s the kind of channel that you can watch and suddenly have a…
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Why are you working so much?
I used to work for the premier accounting firm in the world. That’s a subjective statement, but so is “Dook basketball is the worst.” But you know something about that place? Besides being the best at what we did, and besides having incredibly talented people there that were, for lack…
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Following rules no one taught us
“The English language is a rascal.” I came across a post over at Kottke today that blew my mind in a way that was at once disturbing and fantastic. The whole point of the post was to show that there is a very specific order for adjectives when we string more…
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Free stuff that matters
Do you know how much it costs to look someone in the eye, or to put your phone down and listen, or to send a random note, or to shoot baskets with your kid, or to give someone a ride, or to ask a good question, or to say “I…
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Time isn’t money
Benjamin Franklin, apparently, is who we have to thank for the delightful cliché, TIME IS MONEY. Whenever I hear or read that phrase my mind immediately goes Caps Lock ON and I imagine yelling by someone strongly resembling Donald Trump. It’s not just a dumb cliche; it’s a cosmic lie. Don’t…
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Completely Avoidable Complication That You Don’t Avoid
I’m not old, but I’m older than I used to be, and life as a result is more complicated. As far as I can tell, this is a universal axiom. There are, to be sure, physicists and philosophers who have very different ideas about Time and whether it exists on…
Meaningful Returns 