Getting the last word feels great! It feels so beautifully indulgent and victorious to hit that perfect phrasing that makes the other person realize how wrong they were. If only you could see them reading it, wincing, and realizing they should apologize. What satisfaction it would bring. What a great fantasy. Too bad life doesn’t work out that way. You’ve no doubt received a snarky email like I described. Do[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on people who succeed despite adversity. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] More inspiration, continuing my series on people who succeeded adversity… Person Achievement Adversity Auguste Rodin Generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he is recognized as the most important sculptor[…] Keep reading →

Have you had problems? Have you felt depressed? We all have. Sometimes life feels like it’s free-falling, like as bad as it gets it seems like it can still get worse and does. When life brings you down, it helps to have things that keep it from dropping lower. Friends and family are resources people commonly cite as keeping their lives stable and keep them from dropping too low. As[…] Keep reading →

Years ago computers were people. That is, before we built digital computers to compute for us, businesses and projects needing long computations would hire people to compute for them. They called those people computers. During World War II, the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb had lots of hard calculations. The scientists would simplify them to simple but numerous and arduous basic calculations of addition, subtraction, and so[…] Keep reading →