WIL #3 - Energy

Building things is fun. Thinking is fun. Being able it appropriate it all while it is happening is a lot of fun.

WIL #2 - All the wrong places.

What I learned is that I am motivated and blown away by all the wrong things.
Maybe not wrong; just unexpected and nonconventional.

I may have found out what I will spend my professional life working towards recently...
in a cartoon.

And today I ran in to a buddy whom I don't know well off the basketball courts.
He chews gum while he plays, is all tatted up, and definately gets hair lined-up rather than cut.

Holding his newborn in one arm, playing with his dog with the other, he seemed really disgustingly, genuinely, perminantly happy today.

I had imagined him struggling through the working day, hitting the courts at six every night, partyinig on the weekends, and generally barely holding on to sanity as it seems so many are.

I seem to have been wrong and have learned something.

WILL - Jan 31

What I Learned Lately is that there are a few benefits to having a vegetarian partner (who doesn't read your blog).

i - Obviously you eat healthier.
ii - You slowly see that you could be a vegetarian too someday. However, not today.
iii - You discover how many ways you can cook broccoli.
iv - You see how often there is no substitute for the real thing (steak, burger, cream).
v - Sneaking off on Tuesday afternoons for ten hot wings becomes an extreme pleasure.

New blogging idea

It turns out I don't have something to say every day. 

So, I will now stop trying to say things. I will just start posting things I have learned that day.

Maybe if I learn something for many days in a row I will eventually have something to say.  

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Today I learned being calm and positive while others are blinded by aggressive anger is not only good fun, but it is also effective. 

It is fun because your calm often, strangely, makes them angrier. But, more importantly, it also gives them an invitation. If you are calm, you are implicitly welcoming them to join you, no questions asked.  

Misbehaved Heros

I was recently reminded that my two biggest heroes (outside of friends and family) publicly don't support each other. It seems that they actually detest each other.

Heroes are heroes because they are not wrong, at least in ways that matter. But both my heroes can't be right here. AHHHH.

This might be a good topic for an essay...

Sucks again

Wow I suck at this. But I will not lose. Jonny, fuck off.

Conversations

All I did today was have good, meaningful, and energizing conversations.

Doing this every day wouldn't work as I wouldn't have time for immersing myself in the torrent of life that creates the content for these conversations.

But doing this - having these conversations - once in a while, is awesome. I can pull back out of the torrent and appreciate the big and the small, make deeper connections, and find ideas and inspiration to jump back in.