I often hear that one should always be positive. Â It helps one move through life more easily. Â Honestly, I’m not so sure that’s always good advice. Â It’s a rare subset of people who can maintain that mindset truly. Â I can’t speak for everyone else, but positivity is very tiring. Â It requires constant vigilance. Â It assumes the best case scenario or what I call the optimists mindset. Â In this time of my life, I’m leaning every…
In my 20s I was never really interested in economics as an intellectual pursuit. Â The closest I came to it was to make sure my checkbook was balanced and that bills were mostly paid. Â It wasn’t until the company I worked at offered 401k plans that I began my long lesson in economics and its impact on my personal life. I left the company in 1999 and had a sizeable chuck of investments in the…
Attaining a level of skill and competency in a technical sometimes leads a person to falsely believe he is skilled and competent in all other matters. Â It’s something I’ve observed in myself and others of my peers, and it can seriously ruin a person’s credibility. Â I’ve had moments where it’s diverted me away from my ideals. Â It becomes more a matter of ego and less of what is true and beneficial of everyone. It’s ever-present…
Another year has come and almost gone. Â Where do I start? Â I got married. Â In all the musings over the years about the sort of person I would marry, I couldn’t have imagined the person I married. Â Serendipity has smiled on me in all the important matters, because my wife has brought so many things to my life that I desperately needed. Â I just never realized that I needed them. Â I’ve grown immensely as a…
I have been inundated with work recently. Â I felt it was more than I could handle. Â That feeling is horrible for someone who requires mastery of all within his domain. Â If you didn’t get the hint, that would be me. Â I then asked myself a very simple question. Â Why did I want to become an engineer? Â How did I go from a desire to explore the universe [1] to being a glorified tinkerer? The earliest…