Latin Friday: Zeus Turned into a Goose

My team was sharing about weird school memories, and I explained how I learned being the Latin Club president meant I could make a morning announcement whenever I wanted. I began a series called Latin Friday, where I’d read a wildly paired down tl;dr version of a Greek Myth. They asked me to reinstate this…

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The real conspiracy surrounding the Moon Landings. The real-est. Ever.

When I went into my yoga class tonight, I steered past my typical section of the room because it smelled bad. I’m not sure what the source was, and I practiced “letting go” by finding a new spot in the studio. We settled into our various spots and worked through several postures holding our knees,…

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Einstein, Bad Quotes, and You

I’m convinced most people don’t know what Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity really means or anything about what he did beyond that. We take for granted that he was really smart and then quote him as a philosophical piece of evidence for our own agendas. I have heard lots of people reference him to justify…

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4 Minutes, 9 Seconds of Joy

It’s been a heavy week on a lot of layers. No need to go into the deets – we’ve all been watching the news and also have our personal lives. I find it pretty easy to slip into a cloud of heaviness and gloom, and the Studio Rio version of “Sexual Healing” has been like…

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On Leadership

Jupiter protects us. The giant, red, gaseous planet’s gravitational pull distracts asteroids swirling around the median of our solar system, looking for a place to land. It calls to them with its massive force “Come to me”. One of those rocks could destroy us. Maybe not all of us, but enough to take down our…

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What if every story was a universe we created?

Hey Diddle Diddle The cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon. The little dough laughed to see such a sight, and the dish ran away with the spoon. I have this story memorized by heart. It’s my son’s favorite 4 page cardboard book. He’s one years old, and he’s been staring at…

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Spiderwebs, cognition, and AI

  “The Thoughts of a Spiderweb” appeared in Quanta Magazine and was reprinted in The Atlantic. It presents research on how spiders adjust their behaviors when something adjusts in their webs, like some of the strands being snipped. In an experiment, the spiders began using the dangling web threads to catch insects and pull them up…

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Grief Work

I have heard it said about the Millennial generation that we don’t like the pain of life, and we live jumping from one high to the next. That’s nothing new. Each generation has its own way of distracting from the truth that life is hard. I’m guilty of this distraction. There are “small” things like finding…

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Rockstar Status: Upgrading from Novice to Vegan Yogi

No, I’m not going vegan. I ate fried chicken last night! I also went to a bar on a weeknight for the first time since August 2015. The adventure felt like stepping into a familiar pair of sneakers – perfectly contoured to my footprint, while recognizing they went out of style 5 years ago. My rockstar status…

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What to do with an abundance of information?

“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among…

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