I'll sleep when I'm dead.
That’s what they are. A bunch of Do-Gooders. And now I’m one of them. Worse, one of the ringleaders! When not off on some adventure weekend (snowboarding, scuba diving, skydiving, etc), my new extreme sports group of friends have been … Continued
I have always tended to get along well with colleagues who are generally considered by others to be the “difficult” coworkers in our organization. In fact, the ratio is significant. Many of those tough cookies are among my closest colleagues. … Continued
How often am I in the moment? Yet again I find myself somewhere else while a swirling soup of conversation surrounds me. Others are laughing together. What was said? I was busy in my own world. Again. What’s more, I … Continued
Helloooo 2017! I am looking FORWARD to you! You are going to facilitate some awesome things in my life in the next 361 days. Let’s not call this my New Year’s Resolution post because my resolve is ongoing. I don’t … Continued
INCREDIBLE WEEK. I just got back from a trip to CERN with our high school physics teacher, Jaima Holland, and 13 of our most enthusiastic physics students. It’s a trip Jaima and I have been trying to achieve for the … Continued
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” —Buckminster Fuller I like changing my existing model. Frequently. I live for dynamic transformation. Maybe even a fair bit … Continued
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” — Robert Browning I don’t like things easy. Ironically, I have it pretty easy, so in my case, I have to go hunt down ‘hard’ on … Continued
All instruction is but a finger pointing to the moon; and those whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond. Even let him catch sight of the moon, and still he cannot see its beauty. This is … Continued
“You have five years, starting…NOW!” I said to Vedat, starting the (nonexistent) stopwatch on my wrist. I was explaining to my new little brother how my life tends to run in very distinct intervals of five years, with everything changing … Continued
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” –Werner Heisenberg, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics. Trying pretty passionately to follow … Continued