life optimizing

Frame shifts are equally true

Upside down is true.
I flip over into a handstand. My love walks on the wooden floor. She is upside down. My perspective is different. But is it wrong to say that shw is walking on the ceiling? Nope - …

Active vs. passive time

My son is 11 years old, almost 12. Statistically we spend 80%+ of the time we ever will with our children by the time they are 18 years old. By that standard we are half way done already. And yet …

Channel minimization

As a child I recall falling asleep staring at my night light. An array of yellow-orange light beams danced through liquid eyelids. They were the closest thing to a connection I knew. I was thinking about this as I dozed …

On focus [excerpt from Chemolog]

I’ve been taking time off work for the past few months to focus on cancer treatment. Healing is my singular goal in life. If all goes perfectly g-d willing I’ll be done with all this by end of December. That …

partially done

Open loops are a recipe for frustration. But it's worse to gloss over them. That compounds the issue.

I pass over a graveyard. If I had to guess I would say the overwhelming majority of bones beneath the stones had …

ditch the research; keep the twinkle

I went into science to remain a child. Where else can exploration for its own sake be considered a value? I did an MS in molecular biology and research in mathematics. I wanted to establish a foundation for understanding how …