My actions are my only true belongings. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Your legacy, what you truly leave behind, is what you’ve done.
All your possessions are fleeting and can be lost in an instant — and will fade and decay anyway.
What endures are the choices you made, the work you’ve done and lives you’ve touched.
Concern yourself less with “stuff” and more – much more – with what you do.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot What we can do and what we think we can do are so often far apart. The problem is 1) we are (generally/overwhelmingly) so wrong about what we’re truly capable of and 2) we take our…
You can do anything once you stop trying to do everything. – Eric Barker Why would anyone try to everything anyways? One possibility: to please. Trying to please others. Trying to please the idea we have in our heads about what people want from us. Trying to do enough and make people happy. Why? Because…
Recently, on my Facebook Page I posted a quote from Steve Young (former professional (American) football player) that reminded us to compete against ourselves, to be better that we were before. I was reminded of that idea (and it’s great advice . . . ) when I read Seth Godin’s most recent blog post; here…
I was listening to a Fresh Air interview with Dean Norris recently when he said something that really struck a chord. He was talking about how he prepared for a shoot-out scene in the (amazingly excellent ) television show Breaking Bad (he portrays a DEA agent). Norris relates that most law enforcement officers do not fire their weapons in…
Been away, haven’t seen you a while, how ya been? Anyway, 70s soft-rock references aside, I want to write something down and publish it – in the hopes of copyrighting it. The term has to do with Artificial Intelligence (AI), and how important it is to be skeptical and careful when using AI (at least…
Everybody’s heard the saying “That which does not kill you makes you stronger,” Nietzsche I believe said it, or something very similar. It’s wrong though, or at least woefully incomplete. (Or, it’s incomplete in the way we use the words these days.) Nowadays people think that if bad stuff happens to you, you get stronger….