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26 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: say one thing in a blog post, then do the exact opposite. That’s pretty much the definition. Yesterday was a bit of a tough day for me. Only three hours after I hit “publish” on a post called “Respect for Time,” I completely disrespected someo...
25 Jun 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: How we spend our own time is up to each of us. How we choose to spend the time of others requires thoughtfulness. After college, I lived in Germany (Frankfurt) for 1 year and then in Japan for 2 years. On one of my first days in Germany, I was...
24 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Your day may not go as planned, but if you win the morning, you increase your odds of success. You also feel better One of the things you learn in the practice of meditation is that your mind IS going to wander. While I haven’t asked him about...
24 Jun 2020 7 minute read 2 comments 2key
Pay per Click (PPC) campaigns, or search advertising, raked a cool $106.5 billion in 2019. Yet, managing a PPC campaign is complex and, short of hiring a PPC manager, you might well fall into the trap that leads 72% of companies to ignore checking,...
23 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: Imagining a future where a blockchain certifies your competence as a driver and the end of mandated driving instruction. My daughter is going for her driving test this afternoon. I’ve been training with her for 9 months. We’ve done urban roads...
22 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl:dr; My outlook is not as rational or balanced as I thought. Neither is yours. Awareness of both is good. Affecting change is only possible by one of us. My father and I were chatting about current events. He had expressed curiosity about whether w...
19 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
We can do X or we can do Y. But, maybe we could actually do Z. A friend of mine recently gave some great advice? “whenever you have a choice in front of you that seems to have two options, take a moment and come up with a third choice.” Binary thin...
18 Jun 2020 4 minute read 1 comment jer979!!
tl;dr: I’m a notary public and my own existence in this capacity is cause for self-loathing. I’m a Notary Public in Maryland. It happened as a kind of joke. I was sitting in my sister’s apartment about 9 years ago when she told me she was applying to...
18 Jun 2020 5 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: how entitled behavior leads to conflict, disharmony, and discord. An example of dog owners in public parks. An entitled dog owner doesn’t leash her dog There is a wonderful park across the street from my house. It’s 500 acres full of pat...
16 Jun 2020 3 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
tl;dr: The words are used interchangeably, but they don’t mean the same thing. One of my close friends is a senior executive at a blue-chip biotech firm. He’s been in that business his entire career and has been the M&A lead on a number of important...
