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How do you get the massive things done? Whether they be professional or personal. How do you write that book? How do you propose to that boy? How do you quit smoking? One way is to tell someone. Put it out there.

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I remember exactly where I was when I first heard the term Zero-Sum game. It was Dr. Palmer’s class in Analog Computing. Our lab had to configure multiple operational amplifiers to create a scaled amplifier where one input was the signal to be amplified, and the other input was the amplification mul...

Natural Law can be described mathematically with rigorous application of established proofs (remember High School Geometry). It can be characterized sociologically as laws that apply to everyone independent of a terrestrial governing body, i.e., The Golden Rule. I find it fascinating when both the m...

"All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

- Albert Einstein

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the ene...

The wind howls tonight. It's wild, this winter New England wind. It looks intimidating, evidenced by the spastic whipping I see from the several flags outside my window. It sounds worse, with its off-distant, low-level roar and its climactic howling crescendos. It can't be controlled. Yet, I love st...

I have to admit, finding purpose has always been an elusive endeavor. At times I would feel deeply about my purpose, and other times, meh. If only I could label it, bottle it, and drink it on demand, wouldn't that be grand? Well, you can. We all can. It's not that hard.

I don't believe we have just...

Some things frighten us deeply to our core. The fright comes from the potential of loss pain; Loss of a loved one, loss of carefully curated wealth, loss of status and stature, loss of identity.

 There are other sources of fright that are a bit more complicated. They involve process pain, the fear ...

What is pain? We all experience pain. There is the physical, where we all have a modicum of control over. There is pain, which creates fear. There is use in these types of pain. And then there is useless pain: resentment, anger, jealousy, anguish, regret. These are the things that make us inef...