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Parkinson’s Law, The Deadly History of Deadlines, and A View of Time as a Vessel

One comes across a variety of content while surfing the web.  Some are educational; these you save and never look at again. Others are life-saving, like that video of a dog and a cat snuggling.  But every once in a while, the algorithm slides you a chunk of sobering truth—reality stripped of embellishments and presented …

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Why Do You Do What You Do?

Why do we read the books we read? Or hang on to the words of a mentor? Or even listen to hours’ worth of motivational speeches? This is an easy one. We do it to draw inspiration. Not like role models, but something more intimate, like looking at another self—a better self, through someone else. …

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