When you hear an idea from someone that seems completely alien and unacceptable to you, ever wonder what path they took to reach the point where it makes perfect sense to them?  There are many examples in history, obviously, but I think we each probably run into situations like these in our day to day lives as well.

Just curious what you all think ( Read more... )

How would you like to see this hanging on the wall of your workplace?  Truth in advertising?  You be the judge.  I love the multiple layers of meaning to this.  It really makes me "see the movie" of what it's talking about.  I've definitely worked for some bosses who would have played the bloody-obsidian-knife-wielder well. 

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So I've stumbled upon several quotes I wrote down a while ago and thought that I'd share some of them over the course of the next however-long with you all.

"I cannot say whether things will be better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better."

- G.C. Lichtenberg

I really like this one although I've been lazy to ( Read more... )

So I can't count the number of times that people have told me "Matt, you need to sign up with Live Journal."  So after years of dragging my feet and being stubborn for no apparent reason I've finally thrown in the towel and, well, here I am.

I suppose the main reason that I've finally decided to give this a shot is that I've recently found the ( Read more... )