As promised, here’s the new blog: Fatherhood2dot0.com The kind words and encouragement I’ve received over the past week have been incredible. What a humbling experience it’s been to read them. I’m excited […]
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The End
Our memories are mostly memories of memories. We can trust the big ideas. The details are more suspect. We pave over the particulars of our past with things from other events […]
On the Utility of Faith
For those of you who don’t follow the majesty that is @sphughes99 on Twitter…this sort of stuff pops out from time to time… Thread on the utility of faith. Most of the […]
A Bridge to Nowhere
My family has been in America a long time. My first descendant was a Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam in the 1630’s named Wyckoff. He was an indentured servant who rose to […]
The Systems Problem of Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are a systems problem; a problem that involves complex environments in which multiple inputs of varying degrees of dependency act together to produce some systemic outcome. And while we may […]
To the Moon
Second only to the Gettysburg address for me…one of the great of American Speeches given September 12, 1962 at Rice Stadium in Houston Texas by President John F. Kennedy. Enjoy…50 years to […]
The Dog We Feed
The most eloquently stated argument against the centrally planned economies of socialism that I’ve come across is expressed by Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. In The Fatal Conceit: Errors in Socialism, Hayek lays out […]
On America
For every charge over Omaha Beach, there’s a My Lei. For every Apollo 11, there’s a Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. All our heroes have the same problem heroes always have. They’re people. And […]
We Have No Excuse
I came down to my kitchen yesterday morning and realized that I was running short on the lion’s mane, Scandinavian made mushroom coffee that I drink. I spoke a few words into […]
Thoughts on Travel Ball
My 10-year-old has caught the bug. He’s a baseball junky. He can’t get enough. And so, this weekend we started down the dark journey that’s been described to me in horror by […]
