Well, someone did the world a favor and uploaded the best scene of one of my favorite movies by my favorite director. The first time I watched The Darjeeling Limited was in the theater in 2007 (Santa Monica, I think). The person I watched the movie with had seen more of life by the age …
I recently read a post by Jason Fried of 37signals.com about ascribing depth to flatness and generating irrelevant data. “… I can’t help but think it’s generating data that’s incompatible with the actual situation. Being asked to rate minutia with a 10-point scale, and ascribe depth of an experience to something that’s effectively flat and …
We went on our first camping trip as a family last weekend. Purposefully designed as a low risk experience. Location: Malibu Creek State Park. Literally a five-minute drive from the house so, if things went south, we could always drive home and return the next morning to have coffee by the fire pit and pick …
Following on my August 7 entry (don’t sabotage the trip before reaching your destination), I think we need to embrace and find beauty in logistics. We are all victims of the planning fallacy. We all underestimate the time we will need to complete our own tasks, even when we’ve already underestimated the very same task …
The lesson is: when going places for or with Kai, don’t attempt to sabotage the trip before reaching our destination.