The idea of ‘sleeping on a problem’ is well known and accepted as a perfectly acceptable way of dealing with a mental block.  A new study performed by a team led by Simone Ritter of the Radboud University Behavioral Science Institute in the Netherlands successfully linked smell with the success of ‘sleeping on it’. Participants in the study …
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It started a week ago when Dan Swensen (@surlymuse) posted the song Anvil of Cromm from the Conan soundtrack to Google+. Â Jeff Couturier (@JeffCouturier) said he was going to add the song to his “All Out of Bubblegum” playlist. Inspired by the concept, Dan, Random9q (@random9q), Jeff, and myself started building the ultimate All Out …
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A co-worker made a mistake at work last week. Â It was admittedly a dumb mistake, but in the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t a big mistake or anything that couldn’t be fixed. Â No one got hurt, no laws were broken, and really the only thing affected was ego. I could see he was beating …
Every day I go to the same coffee shop and order the same thing. It is one of those constants in my life. I’ve written about it often because honestly, it is sometimes the best part of my day. This morning I was running late and there was a line at the counter that was …
I own things in my heart that I don’t actually own. Yes, that is as weird as it sounds. I grew up on a lake in Montana. It wasn’t a private lake. It was shared with all sorts of people with cabins who lived there during the weekends on the summer, but only a few …
Very few people would claim Baltasar Gracian was simple.  Maxim 13 is a very complex tightly woven strategic sentiment. This isn’t about philosophy per se, it is one of those sentiments that seems kind of Machiavellian or Sun-Tzu-ian. In a different translation than the free one that I use for the purpose of this blog …