000 - On Why Do Anything - Moral Letters for Modern Times
If you think that all life’s questions have been answered to your satisfaction, then you need read no further. If you believe like me, though, there are still truths worth finding, then please read on.
Secret Plans
My wife and I have come to the conclusion that everyone is entertaining what we call “secret plans” all the time.
Ways To Make Politics Better
Off the top of my head I can think of ten ways to make politics better. You will not agree with all of these, and you will have some better ideas.
No One Said Life Is Fair
When I was growing up, my Dad had a standard response to my brothers and me whenever one of us complained about the never-ending ways that life was unfair: “No one ever said life was fair.”
Wish I Was Here
When we are doing something, anything at all, we have a near infinite number of ways to distract ourselves. We dwell on our thoughts, our mood, and our hopes and dreams.
Incentives Are Everything
To understand incentives is to understand human motivation. If you want to know what a person will do, start by asking what they have to gain or lose from an action.
A Bird In The Hand ...
… is worth two in the bush.
This proverb encapsulates two truths:
* We value things we can have now more than
Nutrition Advice Gives Me Indigestion
What is by turns amusing and maddening about nutrition advice are the villains variously fingered as the causes of our ill health.
