Five senses. Twenty-six letters. One perspective.
This is simply a place for me to explore, develop, and share my thoughts, ideas, and perspectives. I do a lot of writing for my day job, but this site allows me to keep my creativity healthy, while not worrying about the perfection I strive for in my professional life. Total freedom to write whatever I like is fun, and I hope you enjoy it.
Encourage courage
Encouraging people who are working on improving themselves or their communities is something which I would strongly encourage you to engage in. It’s easy, and have have a massive impact.
A rare and precious place
A short appreciation post about a market that I frequent.
Idea: Social Reflection
Record yourself scrolling socials alone, then edit that video to take the phone out, so it looks like you’re just staring into nothing and laughing every once in a while. Average your daily screen-time for the total number of hours you’ve done that so far that year and slap it on frame at the end.
Could be a thing.
Down the rabbit hole…
The deeper you go, the longer you walk through the hallways and rooms filling more and more with people, the more you feel the beat… you feel it in your clothes…
Choices
Which do you think would be more difficult:
Making the right choice in a big milestone life moment.
Making the right choice in the tiny little life moments we all face each day.
Building a Life
A reflection on how I perceive my own life, the decisions I make, and how they will affect the lessons my son learns from me.
Idea: Video Game Recap
Something I’ve long thought would be great to have in video games – especially complex ones – is an automatic recap after it hasn’t been played in a while.
Stop listening to the liars.
Turn around if you’re not in the mood to be honest…
Spoiler-free is the way for me
When was the last time you played an album without knowing anything about the artist, started a movie without watching the trailer - or even reading the synopsis - or reading a book without reading a few user reviews first? If you’re anything like me, it might have been quite a long time.
Salary Negotiation Advocates
The point of this idea is to lift up the people who deserve more, yet aren’t able to advocate for themselves in salary negotiations.
Blind Typing
You set a timer for 5 minutes, and set up two keyboards facing each other with no screens…
Social Encouragement
Why do people go to a coffee shop to get work done?
I just witnessed courage.
There’s a market in London, Ontario which bustles with life each Saturday and Sunday. I love this place, and today I witnessed a small but courageous act...
Killing time.
This is a dramatic topic, honestly; there really isn’t any other way of discussing it. So either stop reading now, or get on board. This won’t be a long post, but it’s going to be a ride, I’m not going to lie…
A bad habit crept in…
When I took a step back and was honest with myself, I found I’d actually been reading online articles far less often than I thought I was. What I found myself doing was reading the headline, skimming the main points, and rushing to the comment section - when I thought about why, I didn’t like the answer…
Another shift in how I use the Internet.
A while back, I used the internet just like most people I knew - mindlessly scrolling Facebook, watching YouTube, scrolling Reddit's endless front page, etc. At some point, however, I made a conscious decision to change that and to use these platforms as tools, as opposed to entertainment.
Idea: Social Running Platform
There are already countless running apps with all kinds of features, but I’ve never heard of one that has this particular feature/approach, so here we are.
There’s a different way to use the Internet - and I like it.
POSSE stands for Publish (on your own) Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. In a nutshell, instead of posting content to various platforms directly, you would post it to your own site, then post links to that content.
Idea: Social Running Platform
A platform for tracking one’s running progress, but it incorporates a real-time motivational feedback based on the mutual tracking of progress and activities of other humans.
A crazy idea for Apple.
Apple is currently known for exceptional quality hardware, but they used to be known for their rock-solid software too. Here, I present an idea for how they can regain that reputation.
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