I started writing this post at my most recent Contra Costa County Sustainability Commission meeting which was aptly held on Earth Day. Since then I've been thinking more about this content, tossing it around in my head. The problems I described, just in the past month, have only gotten worse: historically high temperatures in the … Continue reading What I’m most afraid of
Another quarter, another RWP. I'm glad to report that I've been doing a LOT of reading, writing, and playing. Read: 3 books on Finance This quarter I managed to read three books as part of my self-improvement curriculum. In my 2018 recap, I mentioned how I wanted to focus my media consumption on specific topics. … Continue reading Read Write Play: Q1 2019
If you're new to my cancer saga, here are parts one and two. Part three is coming along in a couple of sittings like these two. It's the part where after I get diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer, get it removed, and carry on with a bit of cloud hanging over my head, the cloud … Continue reading And now, a bit of certainty
Here's more mid-30s introspection about life and goals. These are things I've been thinking about as the people around me and I get older. What game am I playing? How do I know if I'm winning or at least doing above average? And why, for goodness sake, does this even matter? Like most people with … Continue reading The game I’m playing
It was 3:55 in the afternoon when I got the call. The area code was local to where I live and I rarely got robodials or spam calls with that prefix so I picked up, even though I had a work call in 5 minutes. It was a receptionist from my endocrinologist's office. My heart … Continue reading Here I go again
Reflecting back on Scripted, I think it stopped feeling like my own company pretty early on. I had the luster of a co-founder title but I really was an employee like everyone else. There were some extra freedoms, perhaps, but not real freedom. Not like I have it now. Part of it was not being … Continue reading Being the other co-founder
To note the passage of time it’s easiest to point to a thing, like a grandfather clock or a door frame marked with heights and ages. Time moves. Things stay the same. Even though people are things, we move with time too. I look at a picture of myself from ten years ago and think, … Continue reading Ode to this set of Cuisinart
