Weekend Wrap: Fast Cars and Family Time
A family trip to Vegas: family time, an unexpected concert, and the fastest car I’ve ever driven. It’s Weekend Wrap time.
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Weekend Wrap: Loneliness Assuaged by Dungeons and Dragons
Each weekend, I like to pause, reflect, and look back on the past week. This isn't meant to be a deep dive or sweeping life philosophy—just a collection of things that caught my attention, made me think, brought me joy, or stayed with me in some way.
Weekend Wrap: A Time of Change, a Time to Balance
Summer is an interesting and somewhat difficult time of change, of balance, of evolution, and I'm finding myself feeling pulled in multiple directions.
A Half-Century of Life
50 years is a long time. I feared it, but have decided to embrace it. For so many reasons.
Weekend Wrap: Celebrating Milestones, Creating Modern Radio
A year older, celebrating 28 years with my wife, and building a new app to mimic old-school radio. It's been a fun and fascinating week.
Weekend Wrap: A Return to Normalcy
Returning to work brings highs and lows. Being trapped in a metal tube means lots of time for bad movies. This week, I share thoughts about both.
50 Thoughts After Traveling to London
I loved my time in England. In some way, it was good to come home. In others, I was sad to leave. And while I would love to share deep thoughts from my travels, I am pretty dang jet-lagged. Brain not working at full capacity. So, I thought it
Weekend Wrap: London Calls, we Answer
A trip across the pond isn’t a big deal for most people. For me, it is a sign something major has changed inside me.
Weekend Wrap: Music to Break Your Heart and Other Things
The world seems hell-bent on driving a wedge between us all. We need the exact opposite. And some gut-wrenching doom metal to get us there.
Is Self-Improvement Really Self-Loathing?
Do we make ourselves miserable on the road to self-improvement? That question has been all over the place lately. But I'm not sure.
Weekend Wrap: Are Our Systems Making us Miserable?
Systems are powerful tools for change. Unless they become the focus and obsession. But how do we prevent that?
Weekend Wrap: Strong Systems, Loosely Held
June 7, 2026 Each weekend, I like to pause, reflect, and look back on the past week. This isn't meant to be a deep dive or sweeping life philosophy—just a collection of things that caught my attention, made me think, brought me joy, or stayed with me
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Gentle Refinement May 2026 — The Daily Note Wrap Up
The discovery of linking my task management to a daily note has been liberating and exciting. I finally have my own task management system. And I love it.
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Weekly Wrap: Embracing Aristotle and Eudaimonia
May 31, 2026 Each weekend, I like to pause, reflect, and look back on the past week. This isn't meant to be a deep dive or sweeping life philosophy—just a collection of things that caught my attention, made me think, brought me joy, or stayed with me
Essays
The Secret Ingredient: Knowing Yourself
Xanadu. A mythical place of ideal beauty and majesty. Utopia. Whether we realize it or not, we are all searching for it. Metaphorically. Seeking that place or state or whatever where everything is perfect. Whatever perfect is. Guess what? We'll never find it. Xanadu doesn't exist.
Weekend Wrap
Weekend Wrap 5/24/2026
Each weekend, I like to pause, reflect, and look back on the past week. This isn't meant to be a deep dive or sweeping life philosophy—just a collection of things that caught my attention, made me think, brought me joy, or stayed with me in some way.
Weekend Wrap
Weekend Wrap 5/17/2026
Each weekend, I like to pause, reflect, and look back on the past week. This isn't a deep dive or grand reflection—just a quick review of a handful of things that brought me joy, made me think, or challenged me. Music I've always had a
The Foundation
The Seduction of Rumination
We’ve all been there. A tense situation. Pointed words. A well-reasoned argument spilling out of our mouths. Our opponent defeated. Left aghast at the sagacity of our points, left with no other option but to accept that we bested them. And it was all in our heads. I
Weekend Wrap
Weekend Wrap 5/10/2026
Each weekend, I like to pause, reflect, and look back on the past week. This isn't a deep dive or grand reflection—just a quick review of a handful of things that brought me joy, made me think, or challenged me. Music Testament never lost it. No, not
The Practice
Gentle Refinement Month 5 — Exploring the Daily Note
April was a blessing. Having the opportunity to spend the month focusing on my previous three refinements was helpful and a good opportunity to lock things in. But it's a new month, and time for me to begin working on something else. I've decided it is
Weekend Wrap
Weekend Wrap 5/3/2026
Each weekend, I like to pause, reflect, and look back on the past week. This isn't a deep dive or grand reflection—just a quick review of a handful of things that brought me joy, made me think, or challenged me. Music I love music. That should be
Essays
My Personal Journey with High-Dose Creatine Supplementation
Real Life We've looked at how creatine works, both in the muscle and in the brain. We've reviewed studies showing its efficacy in helping with mental processing, memory, cognition, and possible prevention of dementia. This is all well and good. But what about real life? Well,
Weekend Wrap
Weekend Wrap 4/27/2026
Each weekend, I like to pause, reflect, and look back on the past week. This isn't a deep dive or grand reflection—just a quick review of a handful of things that brought me joy, made me think, or challenged me. This is coming out a day late:
Essays
Creatine in Your Body: What Does it Do?
So What does Creatine do? That's the question. How does it help? And why does that matter, even if you aren’t looking for benefits in the gym? It is so important to understand if you want to understand why I believe everyone (who doesn't have