# Thoughts URL: /blog/thoughts --- Random and Specific Thoughts on Life and Action. - [Strategy: Politics and People](/blog/politics/strategy-politics-people.md) (2016-11-09) - Trump appealed to the lowest common denominator. He went after the misogynists, the bigots, xenophobes, homophobes and pretty much any group that is judged harshly in the public eye as being in the wrong due to their prejudices. He appealed to them because he knew they were there, and he knew many of them were hiding so as to avoid public backlash and outrage. He also knew they were a lot bigger than they seemed. The effects of these prejudiced groups on the country, even when hidden, is great. It mostly shows itself violently in our domestic life. We love… - [Freedom Comes with a Price](/blog/thoughts/freedom-comes-with-a-price.md) (2012-11-26) - My mothers Dog, Poochie passed away the day after Thanksgiving. The dog was very well loved and taken care of to his final day. He ended up with congestive heart disease toward the end and was slowly choking to death. It took a lot for them to finally put him down. He was a high maintenance dog; Toward the end he was very stubborn, could not participate with much and would often urinate or defecate at random times. His quality of life quickly deteriorated, as did my mothers, having to deal with this day to day. My mother is now… - [Responsible Business is Respectable Business](/blog/thoughts/responsible-business-is-respectable-business.md) (2012-11-12) - What ever happened to responsible business? Call me crazy but as a young business owner I dream of the day where I can hire masses of people for what they’re worth and help provide them healthcare and other benefits to measure with that worth. When I look around at many businessmen, especially those seen in the media, bottom line seems to be more important than anything else, if you are a business man check the vinylcuttingmachineguide.com/ to find a great product for your company A company that grows should reward those who helped it grow and inspire those people to… - [Don’t Kill the Manager (Messenger)](/blog/thoughts/dont-kill-the-manager-messenger.md) (2012-09-01) - Often times a single person is assigned as the bringer of bad news, the one who gives us all the work that we don’t want to do. This person may have even been assigned by you to play this role; it could be a friend, family member, personal assistant or just an office or project manager. There is a psychological tendency to pair the person bringing your assignments with the negative feelings often felt about the task. Some requests seem very ridiculous or tedious, but this isn’t due to the manager. The key is to separate this feeling from the person who brought it The… - [Personal Responsibility](/blog/thoughts/personal-responsibility.md) (2012-08-20) - Often we find ourselves in situations where everyone around us seems to be failing. The tasks we set forth just don’t seem to work out. If your team is struggling and suffering through a project or a task, it may not be the team that is struggling, it may be you. If you try to micromanage every aspect of a task, or command, step by step, your team members through every minute detail, you may be setting up both you and your team, to fail. You can’t possibly fulfill everyone’s role, nor be their every step of the way for them. You… - [Confidence and Skill: Tip Toe Past your Boundaries](/blog/thoughts/confidence-and-skill-tip-toe-past-your-boundaries.md) (2011-11-23) - The best way to grow is to keep your confidence level slightly above your skill level. Why do I say this? Because it pushes you past your boundaries without breaking them. As a technician, manager or even business owner, if you remain within the comforts of what you know how to do, you stay there. I am not saying if you are a IT geek, go get a job as a cook, no. I mean, as the IT person who is used to a certain way of programming, or language…step out of those bounds and start working at something you… - [Scams, Marketing Masters, Gurus, Self Help, Make Money Online Eating Chips and Soda on Your Couch – See! I can Stuff Keywords too!!!](/blog/thoughts/scams-marketing-masters-gurus-self-help-make-money-online-eating-chips-and-soda-on-your-couch-see-i-can-stuff-keywords-too.md) (2010-12-21) - So I was researching this guy XXXXXX XXXXXXXXX, looking for negative reviews to show this lady who asked me about him that hes just another Marketing “Guru” with nothing new to say. Surprisingly I cant find anything negative on Google after searching 40 pages, nothing that didn’t have huge retort to it. What was amazing is how bloated the internet was with keywords stuffed SEO Copy with the word “XXXXX XXXXX Scam” that was in fact explaining how it wasn’t a scam. This was crazy! I was shocked and appalled. Whatever little content and advice based on his system I… - [Spellcheck on Tests in Oregon and Thoughts on Effect of Technology in Daily Life](/blog/thoughts/spellcheck-on-tests-in-oregon-and-thoughts-on-effect-of-technology-in-daily-life.md) (2010-12-17) - This was a comment in response to a Gizmodo Post: Depresing Newz: Spelcheking During Exams Now OoKay Wit Oragan Schols Not sure if they have allowed me to comment there yet, they say you have to audition but I do not see anywhere to audition! Oh well, hopefully it will be up there sometime. If they teach spelling before a test then it doesn’t really matter if they can use spellcheck on the test, it just gives kids a greater of getting that important and state required “A” to pass their class. Using spellcheck allows the school system to pass… - [Cyberelitism and Social Networking Success](/blog/thoughts/cyberelitism-and-social-networking-success.md) (2010-12-11) - This was in response to an blog entitled: How building your online social network may affect your offline social life, which was based on an article study about Cyberoptimism and Cyberpessimism. My thoughts on the topic of wether I am a Cyber Optimist or Cyber Pessimist: As with anything else in “business” or “life”, it all comes down to strategy. Offline or online, building relationships one “friend” at a time or one “business card” at a time is really much the same thing. It all depends on what you are going to do with the relationships you maintain. It matters not… - [At The Office at 12 AM, Thinking About ReLiC](/blog/thoughts/at-the-office-at-12-am-thinking-about-relic.md) (2010-09-18) - So its 12 AM, and I am at the office waiting on the AT&T guy to fix the phones. The office is an hour and a half away from home. Sigh. There is some funny business going on across from the office. 4 cars are parked next to the train tracks…weird. People are getting out in the dark and talking to each other. We turned the lights off. Hmm… Valuable programming time is being lost, so I decided to blog on one of the Agent Computers. The boss (one of them) is here with me, just hanging out. Bored. Thinking… - [On Names](/blog/thoughts/on-names.md) (2010-08-16) - There is a lot to be said about a name, especially in SEM, SEO and most prominently in SM (Social Media). Why? Because it’s people who know how to work the machine, not the machines running themselves. On the internet, you are your name. Without a name, your just another random person on the street, no one cares, no one knows you. You drive by them every day on the highway. Nameless people. Names are either given to us, or chosen; and it is our duty, should we so choose, to make this name known. Your name is the one… - [Resilience](/blog/thoughts/resilience.md) (2010-06-15) - There is something to say about resilience. It is a borderline characteristic that can lead to great folly or great fortune. The question is, whether it is a part of you or not. Forced resilience (although resilience always takes a certain amount of force!) is a characteristic that is often mixed with heightened sense of pride and ego. It is difficult to part from a forced sense of resilience because of it’s tie to one’s mental and personal core . It is powerful and often becomes stubbornness. This type of resilience often leads to folly, as a person tries to… - [The Friar and the Muslim](/blog/thoughts/the-friar-and-the-muslim.md) (2010-06-14) - Watching Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (yes, I know, old movie) I couldn’t help but think about the encounter between his Muslim friend and the Friar. When the Friar realizes the error in his prejudice toward the “barbarian”, he makes amends. He offers a drink to the Muslim, who cannot accept. He exuberantly explains that he will drink and his new barbarian friend can talk. It must have been such an amazing conversation. The wisdom that the Muslim carried around from his knowledge of the Qu’ran, and the revelations the Friar would have at the similarity of their religions (Islam… - [Ocular Migrane: What is it? Food Poisoning? Genetics? Chocolate?](/blog/thoughts/ocular-migrane-what-is-it-food-poisoning-genetics-chocolate.md) (2010-06-07) - I’ve had a ocular migrane before. I didjn’t knwo what one was until recently, but it has definately happened. It used to happen very infrequently, maybe once every one or two years. However, in the past 3 to 4 months, they have occured maybe two or three times. They are terrible. They blur my entire vision. Mine is not exactly as others describe, it is more like a color full blur, like a bad Gaussian blur that eventually blocks out nearly all my sight. I just had one a few minutes ago, and it passed after 30 minutes of waiting… - [Multi-Browser User & Power](/blog/thoughts/multi-browser-user-power.md) (2010-06-03) - Does anyone else find themselves being a multi-browser user? I use all of them, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer (in that order too). I do this just to keep up with the amount of accounts I have to have open. I run probably 2 or 3 Gmail accounts at a time, and this is the primary reason that I need multi-browser functionality. True, Firefox has some features that will allow a person to use multiple accounts per browser, but with Google Docs, Calendar, etc. I find I just need to keep them separated to reduce confusion. Then there is… - [Patience Politics and Business](/blog/thoughts/patience-politics-and-business.md) (2010-06-02) - Sheesh! A week has gone by after commiting to write a blog a day and I haven’t been able to write anything! Memorial Day weekend was a blur, mostly spent gaming and relaxing with neighbors. I got to meet quite a few new people. So…even though I was not able to commit as I had originally planned, we will continue from here. One interesting fellow I met is a man named Harper Davidson. An early retiree, he made his career in life insurance sales working for New York Life Insurance company. He was an older man, visiting only for the… - [On Blogs and Blogging – taking percocet for pain](/blog/thoughts/on-blogs-and-blogging.md) (2010-05-24) - Do any of you ever feel your hiding behind a mask of transparency online? That you are allowing yourself to play roles that are you, but only halfheartedly you, since you always have that “ulterior” motive to make it do something for you or reinforce your online identity? Do you feel you actually care what others think of you and that’s why you “don’t” post this or that? Maybe it’s irrelevant, or no one will care, or it’ll make you look silly. I for one try to be sincere, while drawing the line at some personal issues that I choose… - [Chaos in Unity – Infinity – Life in Society as a Mental and Social Abberation](/blog/thoughts/chaos-in-unity-infinity-life-in-society-as-a-mental-and-social-abberation.md) (2010-01-14) - Just imagine a Circle that can’t have an edge because there is nothing outside of it (that’s infinity, i.e. God) then think, what’s that infinity doing there? Then think, if infinity is everything, which by definition it is, then what purpose does infinity serve other than to serve itself. Then think, we are in infinity at some point in “linear time”, and trained (socially) to worship and do deeds in the name of that infinity, serving infinity. Essentially, a part of infinity serving infinity, while infinity serves a part of itself by “granting” very existence. Meaningless in the end, redundant,… - [Purpose and Work](/blog/thoughts/purpose-and-work.md) (2009-06-25) - One of the hardest things to do is discover is purpose, especially in relation to one’s career. There are some who jump at every opportunity that comes toward them, and often get stuck with one or the other. Getting stuck only happens when the fear of change sets in and opportunity can no longer be recognized. I have had the opposite problem. I’ve been everywhere, studied so many different things. I have had opportunity smack me in the face multiple times, often by the same people. I have been stuck on the fear of change too, but the fear of… - [Wealth, God and Happiness](/blog/thoughts/wealth-god-and-happiness.md) (2009-06-17) - The following was a reply to a discussion about whether Christians Should be Wealthy or not on myLot Discussions: What do you need wealth for but to maintain your level of living? What are you going to save for? What are you going to spend on? What is the point of hoarding wealth instead of spreading it to others or into the economy (through purchasing, creating jobs, investing, etc.) Wealth does nothing. It is an insubstantial number in an insubstantial account somewhere…which surprisingly can be used to purchase substantial things. Until it is used it is just potential. Those who are… - [On Death and Memory – Birth and Death](/blog/thoughts/on-death-and-memory-birth-and-death.md) (2009-06-15) - When a person is born, it can be said that they have no memory whatsoever of anything before birth. Can this not be said then of death? Is there really that much of a difference between birth and death? If both are said to be oblivious states in which conscious does not yet, or ceases to exist, then they are one in the same. There is no difference, before or after, for something that doesn’t exist. Experience of consciousness happens during the living phase, which is the only phase. A state of non-existence is not a phase. This is an… - [Progress](/blog/thoughts/progress.md) (2009-05-28) - Why do we need progress? What is it about feeling as if we are progressing, accomplishing something, that drives us forward? I know that whenever there is a huge project with a goal that I know will satisfy and lead to other things, that I become extremely motivated to do so, for example I was looking for a new house, so I found a website where comparing mortgage rates made easy , and it could be easy for you too. It’s why gaming works so well for me, that sense of progression is always fed. Often if i reach the… - [Transactional Relationships](/blog/thoughts/transactional-relationships.md) (2009-05-21) - There is a certain amount of effort that people put into individuals they meet. This effort is usually for a Return. The threat of that effort being removed creates anxiety and rashness. The loss of that effort creates depression, hate, malice and other negative affects towards the individual. What isn’t normally realized is that this effort was placed willingly, and with complete knowledge that it is a risk. Why do we treat our relationships as business transactions? If you don’t either follow a person’s lead or contribute to a person’s interest, there is no relationship. It makes me wonder if… - [Wonderings](/blog/thoughts/wonderings.md) (2009-05-21) - Sometimes I wonder if we are really ever meant to do anything. Are we fooling ourselves with purpose? Do we need it? What is the purpose of purpose seems to be a redundant question. One that leaves me in a state of silence, my mind doesn’t travel to an answer because…whats the point?? Life is strange, the way we mill about focused on numbers. In our western culture we are mostly preoccupied with two things, money and weight. Both can be measured, both are sought after. Statistics are appealing, I am not sure why. Even myself, I am drawn to… --- [Back to Index](/llms.md)