Like many people, I have a running to-do list with many “not urgent” items. Things like “replace wiper blades on car”, “organize the mess in the pantry” or “Email ABC customer to see how things are going”. Due to their non-urgentness, these things often get left to the “not doing today” section day...

Note: this was drafte on 3/1/2021 and finalized today. I think it's common for people fail to make new habits and/or meet goals because they set up rules and strategies at the beginning of a project but then don’t go back to review and update those rules and strategies frequently enough. Here's some...

Note: This post is part of my "Museums Project", a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. When you arrive at the museum, your strength and height are assessed. Then you are given a valuable work of art to hold as you wander the museum. Do you want to see other art? Well, you’ll have to f...

Note: This post is part of my “Museums Project“, a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. This one is pretty self-explanatory. I have all this stuff in my life that goes beep: my microwave, washer, dryer, oven, alarm clock, car, phone, etc. Is anyone cataloging these? But beeping is dyin...

Book Summary / What I Got Out Of It A lot of the content was familiar to me, but each author has their own voice and each new voice helps broaden my understanding, strengthen the hold of the concepts in my mind, and makes the memories and actions more accessible when I need them. In a nutshell: If y...

Note: This post is part of my “Museums Project“, a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. Why are there Children’s Museums but no Elderly’s Museums?  (I mean, geez, it's such an unconsidered concept does anyone even know how to spell "eldery's"? Should it be "elderlies'"?) The only...

Note: This post is part of my “Museums Project“, a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. Well, there’s the obvious implementation of this idea: it’s a museum where there’s a bunch of loose snakes crawling around.  Duh. But how many snakes? Is it just a few snakes that you might get...

I’m not going to say too much about this one because it might actually happen. We had had the meetings, worked on ideas, written the script, practiced the parts, made the props, and nearly finished it. Then some people moved away for a year. When they came back, the pandemic started. It has been on...

Note: This post is part of my “Museums Project“, a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. One of the inspirations for this was The Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia (there’s also a second museum in Los Angeles). There was something very captivating about the stories in th...

Note: This post is part of my “Museums Project“, a collection of 200+ high-concept ideas for museums. You might have heard that some years ago the British government polled the internet to name a new military submarine. The internet, being filled with people with not much to do other than mess with...