Things That Go Crash In The Night!
Four of us were asleep on the boat, quietly moored outside the Cabo San Lucas harbor entrance. It was midnight. In my sleep-distorted...
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- Jun 6
Why Youth Matters
We start out young, ignorant, and helpless, with few ideas and believing almost anything people tell us. This absence of beliefs and...
- May 2
How to Live Forever
In the 1990 movie, Joe vs. the Volcano, Joe agrees to jump into a volcano to appease the gods on a South Pacific island, after learning...
- Apr 1
Three Epic Fails
When I was buying my boat three decades ago, the owner gave me advice that I remember to this day. The advice was given in the context of...
- Mar 5
Splitting Arrows
A cupboard door that won’t close, a screw that won’t go into its hole, a boat that bangs the dock while entering its slip, or a team that...
- Feb 4
The Courses That Mattered Most
Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University famously describes how a calligraphy class inspired the addition of fonts to...
- Jan 9
The Worm Within You
We have legs for locomotion, arms and hands for manipulation, senses for experiencing the environment, and sexual organs for reproducing....
- Dec 8, 2023
The Inevitability of Progress
The tyranny of the urgent has captured the world. Your cellphone beeps, reminding you of your next appointment. What a Godsend that you...
- Nov 4, 2023
From Impossible to Possible
Looking back, we can often see points in our lives where things changed and took a new turn. My 10-year high school reunion was one such...
- Oct 3, 2023
We Had Fun!
After a sailboat race, it is common for crews from different boats to ask each other, “How did you do?” If the crew being questioned did...
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