“That was fun.”  “Was it?” “Oh, yeah. Mix of type II and type III fun though.” If you didn’t know, there are four types of fun. Type I fun is “weeeeeeee!” It’s hedonistic, pleasurable. Riding a roller coaster, eating a sweet, having a laugh.  That was fun 🤩.  Type II fun is earned delight. Typically… Read more: Four Types of Fun

Intro The Long Path is a 358 mile trail that extends, officially, from John Boyd Thacher State Park just west of Albany, NY down into “hill country”, then the Catskills, the Shawangunks, Orange County, and the Palisades of New Jersey before crossing the Hudson River via the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan, and finishing at… Read more: Long Path FKT

I was really feeling the collective fatigue from the year. I should have been cruising through early laps, but it was a deep, deep slog. I slowed down a bunch during the first night. The first lap in the dark I was still with Will and he had to alternate walking and running. His chest… Read more: tBunk 200

Last week a couple of friends were axed from their longtime jobs at Dollar General as part of a “corporate restructuring effort.” Lovely technocratic euphemism, that is. Anyhow, they asked me to take a look at their resumes. And I found myself doling out similar advice after seeing their first drafts. Recruiters and other HR… Read more: Resumes for Fruit Flies

“It will be objected that the book deals too much with mere appearances, with the surface of things, and fails to engage and reveal the patterns of unifying relationship which form the true underlying reality of existence. Here I must confess that I know nothing whatever about the true underlying reality, having never met any.”… Read more: Colorado 200