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In my last blog post, I wrote the following: It saddens me that in an age where we have more ways to connect with more people than ever before, people are choosing to isolate themselves. When I was fleshing out that post, I had hit on an idea that I ultimately removed from that post,…

It saddens me that in an age where we have more ways to connect with more people than ever before, people are choosing to isolate themselves. Given all the vitriol and hatred expressed at those who appear to have a different point of view, I’m not surprised. Many issues these days, particularly in the mainstream…

In addition to struggling with my weight, I have also been struggling with Type 2 diabetes the last couple years. I realize it’s nothing compared to what I’ve seen Type 1’s have to go through in terms of calculating how much insulin to take and when, but it’s frustrating when I find out I’m not…

Medium has always been a curious service for me. It provides a nice place to publish your stuff–for free–as well as find an interact with content others write. Each comment in itself becomes its own post, which can be quoted and responded to. For example, the basis for this post originated as a comment It’s…

​I’m not even sure I should post this. That said, I’ve definitely posted my share of “too much information” posts over the years and this one is no different. However, attempting to explain what’s on my mind helps me to make sense of things, and what I’m about to explain will probably make no sense…

It seems there are so many photos being taken these days, but what becomes of them? They’re probably sitting somewhere on a hard drive that will get bit rot. They might get shared on a social network or three, but that’s it. Meanwhile, my employer is just about to finish their new building in Tel…

From Watching the Election from The Post-Truth Future: In China, that foundation of reality is eroded alongside trust in institutions previously tasked with upholding the truth. Contrary to popular sentiment in the US, Chinese readers don’t blindly trust the state-run media. Rather, they distrust it so much that they don’t trust any form of media,…

From At least 42 percent of Pierce voters had turned in ballots by Saturday: Statewide, as of Friday, about 1.7 million of the more than 4.2 million ballots sent had been returned by mail or drop box.>> Record turnout for the state came during the 2008 election, when 84.6 percent of voters participated. In 2012,…

Many people I know into tech are not into sports. At all. In fact, they tend to refer to all sports collectively as sportsball: Sportsball…is an Internet slang term used to describe any competitive sport that revolves around a ball, particularly the ones that end with the suffix “-ball” in their names, such as baseball,…

I seem to have hit a bit of a wall in terms of my creative endeavors. Maybe all those reports I’m writing for work lately have a lot to do with this. Maybe it’s all the time in shiny metal tubes. Not entirely sure. But when your creative pursuits involve more than just writing, you…