On Media Consumption
I’ve been watching a ton of TV recently. Probably since I started my new job, I’ve changed my lifestyle accordingly to veg out on the television after a long day of work. I’m guessing since it’s my first job, I’m not used to focusing so long, because I’m usually pretty wiped out after work. TV doesn’t really require a lot of active thinking, which is probably why I like it. Read More
Going Off Track
I’ve been missing blog posts recently. I have a laundry list of excuses for why this happened, but the more I think of it, I don’t really know why I missed as many days as I did. At end of the day, the people you’re delivering work to don’t give a shit why you’re late on producing work, and in my case, I should hold myself to the same standard. Read More
On Business Travel
I like business travel. I don’t have a huge amount of experience with it, but as a single person with no outside obligations, I find travel a nice reprieve from the daily grind. Outside of the work, you get some time to explore a new city and culture. It’s just a really good way to get out of the house. Plus, you get to lounge around a hotel room in Read More
On Context and History
I started watching this documentary on Netflix called The Eighties, which is about the zeitgeist of the 80’s. One of the focuses of the series is the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Reagan’s presidency struck me particularly because of its relevance to our current political situation – the looming Donald Trump presidency. When I hear the name Ronald Reagan, I think of him as president first, actor second. He’s an American Read More
On Improvement
One of my favorite authors is Nobuyuki Fukumoto. One of these themes he touches on frequently is the road to personal growth and the many obstacles in the way of self improvement. This comes up over and over again in one of his most popular works – Kaiji. The concept behind Kaiji is simple – some random deadbeat who’s never accomplished anything in his life finds himself in life or Read More
On Transportation
This post is expanding on an earlier post I wrote. I went to a gas station to pick up some water after hitting the gym. I spent a good five minutes trying to figure out which bottle of water to get. Normally, I would focus on value – most amount of water for cheapest price. However, the best value products were the gallon jugs, which I didn’t want to get, Read More
Lucid Dreaming
A while ago I was interested in learning to lucid dream. The motivation petered out, but I still think lucid dreaming has a lot of potential as side interest. One area that would be worth exploring is using lucid dreaming as a staging ground for therapeutic purposes – essentially a safe environment to overcome trauma or work on social cues. Lucid dreaming is the concept of controlling your dreams, or Read More
On Advertising, V2
Speaking of advertising, I think the FarmersOnly advertising campaign would make a pretty good case study. I don’t know how effective it’s been, but if my gut is correct, their numbers are probably doing like gangbusters. Here’s the ad I’ve been seeing recently. What’s so great about it? First, I think it does a fantastic job at qualifying its target demographic. I’d imagine the first thought in a person’s mind when Read More
On Ads
Advertising to minors should be illegal. It’s crazy to look back and see what corporations have been able to get away with. If you think about it, advertising is essentially a low level form of mind control, in which a company will attempt to insert itself or its product into your mind space or get you to associate pleasant connotations with it. Advertising to the young can be a way Read More
On The Wheel
Man, the wheel was such a great invention. I walked to the grocery store today – about one and a half miles. I think I bought somewhere in the range of 30-40 pounds of groceries, which would’ve made for a pretty shitty walk back. Fortunately, there’s a bus line from the grocery store in the direction of my house which dropped me off about half a mile away. I walked Read More