Jul 3Things 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...
Jun 6Why Youth MattersWe start out young, ignorant, and helpless, with few ideas and believing almost anything people tell us. This absence of beliefs and...
May 2How to Live ForeverIn 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 1Three Epic FailsWhen 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 5Splitting ArrowsA 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 4The Courses That Mattered MostSteve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University famously describes how a calligraphy class inspired the addition of fonts to...
Jan 9The Worm Within YouWe have legs for locomotion, arms and hands for manipulation, senses for experiencing the environment, and sexual organs for reproducing....
Dec 8, 2023The Inevitability of ProgressThe tyranny of the urgent has captured the world. Your cellphone beeps, reminding you of your next appointment. What a Godsend that you...
Nov 4, 2023From Impossible to PossibleLooking 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, 2023We 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...