Now that the Democratic Party has control of the Congress, one of the many things they’re focusing on is the predatory nature of the big credit card companies in the US. In particular, they’re looking at the ridiculous interest rates, ridiculous fees, and other complexities that credit card companies employ to suck as much...

I have been actively looking for a different job for the past few months, with no luck. Right now I work at a job where I have to travel 100 percent. But with a young family at home, that has become rather difficult, so I’ve decided to start looking around for a job local...

Read good poems. If you really want to get away from the ugliness that life is, read some good poems. This is a lesson that I’ve recently learned. I am one of those people who have always had trouble understanding poems, or even seeing the point of writing and reading poetry. To me, poetry...

In his latest blog post, James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, challenges his critics who cast him as a “doom and gloom” soothsayer with no concrete solutions to his pessimistic scenarios of life in the post-peak-oil era. If any of these critics had ever taken the time to read his books and...

A recently published study by researchers at Johns Hopkins described the psychoactive effects of psilocybin, as well as the “mystical” experiences it can cause. The thing that was most striking about this study was that it was not new news. In fact, this is stuff that was studied intensively a generation ago. The sad...

Right now I am attending the Collaboration Best Practices conference at IBM Somers. One of the key messages arising from the presentations I’ve heard thus far has to do with the central importance of collaboration with regard to successful teams, projects, etc. Slowly but surely, it is becoming apparent that collaboration matters, a lot....