Stop fucking checking your phone all the time

Pre-teens rock their phone or iPad or laptop 7.5 hours a day, adults rock some screen about 8.5 hours a day, and of course, all this is tied to a reduction in creativity (or so we believe). I’ve sat at… Continue Reading

Oscars: All-time, five people have been thanked more than God in acceptance speeches. Who are they?

Steven Spielberg thanked more than God

You see it more in athletics than at entertainment awards shows, but there’s a general rule among many in the world that when something good happens to them individually (or to a team they’re part of), they need to thank… Continue Reading

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Confidence is how you turn thoughts into action. Here’s how to get it.

How To Be Confident

I’m super not confident, so I’m probably not the best person to write this post. That said, I’ll give it a try. Over the holidays, I was with some friends in Massachusetts, and one conversation my man Greg and I… Continue Reading

Your job isn’t supposed to be fun. But it can have purpose.

Work doesn't need to be fun

There’s nothing in your contract about fun, but you should know how your work relates to the broader purpose. Continue Reading

Oscars 2015: The first role for Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Keaton, Bradley Cooper, and Steve Carrell

2015 Best Actor nominees

I did this last year for Best Actress and Best Actor; basically the idea is, I find a person’s career journey to be interesting — so for the five men who could win Best Actor tonight at the Oscars, where did… Continue Reading

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Want to live longer? Here are nine tips

9 Tips for Living Longer Blue Zones

I went to this Blue Zones event in Fort Worth yesterday for about an hour; if you’re unfamiliar with what “Blue Zones” is, well, here you go. The basic idea is that a National Geographic photographer had been all over the… Continue Reading

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To-do lists may actually be holding people back

To Do Lists Ineffective

I feel like the “to-do list” has been a staple of (at least first world) individual organization attempts since maybe the dawn of time. Definitely in the last 20 or so years, they’re everywhere. Outlook and other e-mail platforms have… Continue Reading

What could have happened to Apryl Foster?

Apryl Foster Missing

Here are the basics of this case. Looks like she was out with co-workers in Tampa/Ybor City on Feb. 11 and did a little bar-hopping, ending at a bar called Double Decker. Police have reportedly questioned three men: her ex-husband, her… Continue Reading