The Journal
5 entries
Life
Notes on slowing down and paying attention.

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Life I Have 47 Hobbies and I'm Bad at All of Them I have approximately 47 hobbies, most of which began with a YouTube video and ended with an Amazon delivery. At 43, I'm starting to wonder whether constantly discovering new interests is actually a problem, or the best part of being alive.
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Life I've Reached the Age Where I Understand Why Villains Want to Destroy the World At 43, I'm starting to understand why movie villains get so frustrated with humanity. Between insurance companies, automated phone systems, international diplomacy, and printers that refuse to work, the appeal of an underground volcano headquarters is becoming increasingly obvious.
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Life I’m 43. I Still Don’t Know What I Want to Be When I Grow Up. I'm 43 with a career, wife, kids, house, and opinions about HVAC systems. By every reasonable measure, I'm grown up. I still don't know what I want to be, and I'm starting to think that's exactly how adulthood should work.
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Life My Real Estate Professor Is an AI, and Her University Is Questionable at Best My AI professor turned real estate school into a questionable university filled with recurring characters, ridiculous scenarios, and Cousin Fucking Larry. Somehow, between the jokes and profanity, I’m actually learning something about how education works best when it adapts to you.