I don’t want your unsolicited advice There is a narrative going around with people looking for work frustrated to the extent that they are telling other people not to offer help or advice. The scammers, the resume writers, the people who may have empathy but not experience. The anger and frustration are understandable but the […]
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Culture of “Meh”
I’ve been thinking about disappointment lately. Not the dramatic kind that makes for good therapy sessions, but the slow-drip erosion of basic competence that’s become the background noise of modern life. It’s everywhere, and we’ve gotten so used to it that we’ve created a whole vocabulary around our lowered expectations. We call it “disruption” when […]
Me The Father
I sit at the edge of the table, fruit in the middle and a few beverages within reach. The men grumble on about the wives directing them towards this or that. In only a few more years, the men will have provided enough, taught enough, served enough and the children will move on. Oh, what […]
Mandatory Maker Space
I am not going to complain today or bring up anything that you or I should do. What I am going to talk about is something that I find pretty interesting. When I work on electronics, it is difficult for me to fix things because I can’t see as well as I used to, and […]
Yesterday was
When people were old, they looked old, they smelled old. They spoke of old things and of days and time before. They started with “remember when we…” The music playing on my grandmother’s small radio in the kitchen was soft without words. The big band sounds on the old station. It was FM radio, clear […]