Gary Carmell
I recently read a summary of an interesting piece of research that is somewhat counterintuitive at first glance but upon deeper reflection makes more sense and it’s the cornerstone for one of life’s great metaphors, you’ll see what I mean.
Little Bets -What We Can Afford to Lose vs.…
Gary Carmell
Free will can be quite challenging. We have so many choices and endless options. And like so many things, it can be a double edged sword. We can make choices which improve our lives and those of others or we can make choices that can negatively impact our health and well being as well as others.
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Gary Carmell
I’m still mesmerized by the nearly five and a half hour final at Roland Garros between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. Sinner was up two sets and only needed one more to win the tournament, but Alcaraz never gave up and fought back with incredible ferocity.
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Gary Carmell
I saw a lot of coverage last week about people taking their Social Security benefits as soon as they become eligible at age 62. This is a typical headline.
The thinking is that the much larger than expected number of people filing for their Social Security benefits at the earliest age is due to concerns that program benefits will be cut in the future as a result of DOGE and President Trump’s lack of regard for legacy institutions.
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Gary Carmell
Besides following news on X, every so often, I am exposed to some real gems when reading threads on that platform. I have learned a lot from some great writers there who are able to take important and complex subjects and break them down into coherent and well thought out threads.
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Gary Carmell
This week’s blog post continues with the second half of the summary of Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovich. Every creative person is constantly faced with obstacles that get in the way of their productivity. And these can be brutal.
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Gary Carmell
A blog for the curious skeptic –
There’s nothing new under the sun
(or at least very little)
I’m a big fan of newspaperarchive.com. I have a rather anti-social hobby of often going back and reading old newspaper articles. Occasionally I come across some worth sharing. The following is one written on March 18,
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Gary Carmell
In 1995, I had been working at CWS for nearly eight years and had been married for six. One day, while I was in the office, I was interrupted from a meeting and told that my wife needed to talk to me.
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Gary Carmell
A little while back there was a tennis tournament in the Palm Springs area where we have a second home. A number of people were playing in the tournament who we knew and we had some of them over during one of the evenings.
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Gary Carmell
With this week’s blog, I will inevitably get drawn into the morass of politics by reposting this tweet from X.
Ignoring the typo in which “is” should have been “his” the post made me wonder about the paradoxical intersection between intelligence and ignorance.
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