Book notes: Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
Amazon | Goodreads | Author bio But gradually the wall of partition showed symptoms of giving way. The two fountains of knowledge also slowly began to overflow, and finally their waters met and...
View ArticleResearch notes: the pursuit of comfort
Topic: the human search (drive, desire) for comfort. Starting points Comfort-seeking behavior in humans Comfort as a motivation Comfort as related to fear: fear as enabler for survival, then security,...
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Dependency, systems, and change
What is a culture but a collection of systems commonly shared within a group of people? What is a system but an organized set of rules, a set of norms, usually arbitrary, arranged and followed for a...
View ArticleHow to stay in a creative rut
1. Keep comparing what you need to do with what others need to do. And focus on the seeming inequality of it all. Your work is so demanding, your circumstances so difficult. No one else understands the...
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Why I try to sound important
I have this urge to write first-person things in the plural. “We really think that…” Who is we? There is no we. It’s just me here. It’s just me responding to the email. It’s just me setting up the...
View ArticlePack mentality
Remember the “Big Dogs” business blip of the ’90s? [Hey, they’re still around.] T-shirts, mugs, posters. Those were some motivational big dogs. They said things like, “If you can’t run with the big...
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Your life trajectory
There are two basic directions you can head with your life. Your direction determines your way of life. And a lot of other stuff. You’re aiming at one or the other, whether you mean to or not. One...
View ArticleWelcome to reality
Once you see that a system is just a system, everything changes. Once you see that the system is a man-made structure, an organization with a certain order and a certain set of priorities imposed upon...
View ArticleThere’s another level
I have this idea that’s been floating around in my mind, that there are two levels to the world we live in: Level 1: the most obvious level, the physical world with all its systems and structures,...
View ArticleWe’re all children
I had a conversation with my Dad when I was just about to graduate from college. I’ll never forget it. He said, “You know, Annie, I’m in my fifties now, but I still feel, inside, exactly the same as I...
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