Archive for February, 2010

The Art of Asking

Time and Value I have recently received a few unsolicited email requests from people whom I don’t know. Now, I am actually happy to help other people, but I have to weigh this desire to be helpful with the actual value it will create in the universe as a whole, not simply to unknown individuals [...]

Urgent Evoke

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My Application to Urgent Evoke I am an American expatriate living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I am an entrepreneur who co-founded a Thailand-based publishing company in 2009. Previous to that I taught for 7 years at the University of Hawaii including courses in Internet marketing, organizational communication, public relations and entrepreneurship. Previous to that I [...]

Strange Days

Magic or Superstition Living in Thailand means being surrounded by ghosts, magic incantations, and spiritual seers. The longer one lives here the more the beliefs and their apparent reality prey upon the mind. Tweet

February 17, 2010 • Tags:  • Posted in: Culture • No Comments

Time Horizon

First, read the blog entry Nine Time Horizons – Connecting the Past to the Future from 2009-04-30 Definition of Time Horizon A time horizon is understood here as a cognitive structure in which planning and thinking about the future (and the past) can be effectively accomplished. The idea is that there is no intuition regarding [...]

February 14, 2010 • Posted in: Future • No Comments

The Next 40 Years

This is the sort of post that generally makes me laugh out loud. No one can predict anything like 40 years out. I myself routinely mock anyone who tries to do such a thing. However… Tweet

A Moderately Difficult Week

Moderately Not severely. In comparison to much more difficult weeks this one is mild. Yet, it was not easy, hence moderate in scope. Difficult The difficult part started right there in the beginning, and after a bit of seeming progress (though perhaps mild) it progressed into difficulty surprisingly quickly. Tweet

February 5, 2010 • Posted in: Psychology • No Comments