My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: When Ego Achieves Its Final Form Look, let’s address the elephant-sized ego in the room right off the bat – Kanye West might be the most insufferable human being to ever grace a VMAs stage (and that’s saying something). But sometimes, just sometimes, an artist’s messiah complex actually delivers something…
Learning is subjective. I learn from reading, from podcasts, from observing and listening but to actively seek out learning for its own sake is something that not a lot of people do. Throughout my life I’ve learned quite a few things simply because of my ADHD – I find something interesting, hyperfocus on it for…
Well OK this one was hard, not because I’m a sugar junkie (although I do enjoy a treat now and then) I have two small kids who always want a little sweet dessert and a wife who helpfully bring home leftover treats from events and just leaves them on the counter in plain view. So,…
I’m not sure what this was going to be like – I was a diet soda fiend. I had a diet coke for breakfast, for lunch, and a couple with dinner. Was it the caffeine? The bubbles? The familiarity? I was going to find out – and the results were.. inconclusive. The first thing I…
When I saw the Nirvana unplugged set on MTV I fell in love with the Martin D-18 guitar. The sounds coming out of it were mesmerizing and the tone was so pure in how it blended with Kurt’s voice. I swore that one day I would own a D-18. At the time I could definitely…
I’ve always liked being in the woods – as a child I would explore the scrub pine forest that was our backyard growing up. We’d wander around the white sands looking for cool stuff and just enjoying the primal feeling of being in nature, smelling the strong scent of pine and the earthy petrichor of…
In “The Infinite Game”, Simon Sinek introduces the concept of the “infinite game” – a fundamental shift in how we approach competition, success, and the purpose of business. Sinek contrasts the “finite game” with the “infinite game”. Finite games have clear rules, agreed-upon players, and a defined end point where a winner is declared. Examples…
Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’: Genius, Madness, and the Occasional Whiff of Cat Litter Look, let’s just get this out of the way right off the bat – Bob Dylan is a lyrical genius. When it comes to twisting the English language into kaleidoscopic new shapes, the man is second to none. He’s the kind…
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’: Genius With a Side of Self-Indulgence Look, I’m just going to come right out and say it – Kendrick Lamar is a goddamn lyrical virtuoso. The way he weaves together complex rhyme schemes, social commentary, and raw emotion is the stuff that keeps English professors up at night, frantically…
Ah, “Rear Window,” a cinematic gem that proves the old adage, “curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.” This 1954 masterpiece, directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock and starring the incomparable James Stewart and Grace Kelly, is a thrilling exploration of voyeurism, suspicion, and the dark underbelly of human nature. The story follows…