Last year I had some friends visit for a  workcation here in  Bloomington, IN . Whenever we hung out in a group I felt a bit detached, as though I had grown while everybody else had remained mostly the same as I remembered them.

It was only during my one on...

The desire to share is as natural a human desire as food and water. Not sharing won't literally kill you, but once you're at a certain level of Maslow's Hierarchy you'll basically do anything, claw your way to sharing; to be seen.

I think social media for a lot of us...

While climbing up the stairwell in my apartment building the other day, I realized for the first time two things simultaneously. That it was  November and that people were doing  NaNoWriMo . Then I remembered how far  drewb was getting in on his...

It was spring by the time he figured it out. But because the school year was coming to a close he considered it the summer. 

She had alluded to it. In a kind of, maybe this is where we are headed if things don't change, kind of way. But at...

I met Milo in a class I wasn't supposed to be in. I had scheduled it a few months before because my friend who was a freshmen wanted it really bad and it was a high demand class. At our university upperclassmen got to schedule their classes before the under....

Looking back he was sure of one thing. That he was nervous.
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This was the final Friday of  September . A heat spell had just evaporated and suddenly everybody was walking around in sweaters through that crisp autumn air. And he had only one thing on his mind.

Tumbling a single desire...

The reason why so many founders are finding success in B2B SaaS is because of how slow incumbent organizations move.

It's expensive to create the simplest of software within these established walls. You can't just get started hacking on the cheap as there's a bunch of bureaucratic boxes that need to...

For all our drinking and cooking, we use reverse-osmosis   water . We get this through three three gallon refillable jugs that we take to our little grocery store. Most times we only refill two jugs at a time. Some days it's one. Rarely it's all three. But most times a...

His parent were farmers. This taught him the value of food. Humbled him to fear the treachery of an empty belly paired to a hopeless heart.

See, having an empty belly wasn't a bad thing on itself. In fact he had gone many days not eating a single bite. So long...

I originally began this with the phrase in the old days, but this wasn't long ago time-wise. Instead I should use:

In the far days,  I didn't know the value of respect. And when someone doesn't know something so deep and systemic, it's always the case that they don't know...