Simplify rather than shrink I don’t remember where I heard this, but the concept has been on my mind recently: Simplify rather than shrink. The idea is that retirement doesn’t necessarily mean becoming less, but ra

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A hint of summer Today I was reminded that summer is coming. I’ve had some nice weekend mornings of sitting in the sun already this year, but before today I can’t say that I’ve really felt like summer is on the way.

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Crunching again The jury is still out on whether my buddy and I are going to ‘Everest the Crunch’ in August, (climb the Coquitlam Crunch trail 37 times in 48 hours, to go up the equivalent height of Mount Everest)… b

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6am Gym Goers I’ve been going to a gym, rather than doing home workouts, for about 5 months now. My usual time is to get there by 6am. One thing about the 6am crowd is that they are dedicated. You see all the same

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UCI rather than UBI As AI and robotics continue to scale at unimaginable speeds, with AI getting exponentially smarter and robots increasingly more agile, we've got to realize how many jobs will disappear in a very short

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Observing time Yesterday’s post, ‘Let’s Do the Time Warp Again’ is still messing with my head a bit. The idea of the Andromeda paradox suggests that if we are in motion compared to another bystander, our view of ver

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Let’s Do the Time Warp Again “It’s just a jump to the left… it’s a jump to the ri-ight🎵” …And that’s all it takes to witness two completely different views of what ‘right now’ means: “The Andromeda paradox, proposed by phy

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Lacking decorum I used to think, ‘I don’t understand how we got here?’ But I’m beginning to see a pattern. Honour, respect, and decency are conventions. They are merely expectations, they are simply the way th

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Spaceship Earth First: Two perspectives from a trip to the moon, shared by Victor Glover and Christina Koch. “I don't have anything prepared. I think these observances are important, and as we are so far fro

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A tidal wave of spam Head of products at Twitter/x.com, Nikita Bier, said this on February 11th, 2 months ago today: “Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam & autom

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Honing Observation Skills with Questions
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Mental gymnastics I know it’s a very small percentage of people in the world that think the world is flat, but this group fascinates me. You’ve got to be a special kind of stupid to live in 2026 and think that every sc

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Trying to rebuild old posts Greetings online subscribers. I've had some difficulty with my subscriptions and was playing around with my blog site. I inadvertently moved all of my 'Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts' subscribers to m

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Agency, not information One of my favourite quotes comes from Derek Sivers, "If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs." I was reminded of this in a video shared with me yesterday mo

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So easy to cheat We aren’t far away from contact lenses that can do the same. The article, ‘Smart Glasses for Exam Cheating: Best Models, Prices and Risks in 2026’, shares multiple options that can provide AI delivere

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In living satire A few years back I heard someone say that we are living in the timeline that is the laughing stock of all other timelines, and I’m routinely reminded of this. I read a quote from the leader of

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Way more Waymo Here is a statistic from the company Waymo: "In less than two years, the company’s average weekly paid robotaxi trips have grown tenfold, from 50,000 per week in May 2024 to 500,000 per week today."

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…and rest! The one area of my life that most needs fixing is sleep. While I don’t dwell on the numbers, (that would stress me out), my Garmin watch averages my score at 48/100 over the last 4 weeks. That is by n

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A new groove It wasn’t that hard getting up on Monday morning at 5am to get to the gym. Coming back from a two week break didn’t hurt that much. But getting back into the routine of writing before I got to the gym

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Turn your BS Detector fully on I remember when I used to look to the news for objective truth. I believed the role of a reporter was capital 'T' Truth, and their job was to remove as much bias as possible. I'm not sure if that ever

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Persistent and annoying Three Sundays ago, at the start of the March break, I felt a cough coming on. The timing was awful since I was hopping on a plane to visit my mom & sister the next day. I spent 10 days away and ha

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Rewatching live performances I rarely watch movies more than once. There are a few, like Shawshank Redemption, Princess Bride, and The Matrix that I can’t help but rewatch if they are playing on TV, but there are also many, many

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The best paper (n)ever written Anyone who writes regularly understands writer’s block. It is a scary thing to face and when you are in it, it feels like there is no escape. So when I heard of this paper, I had to look it up:

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Feeling the financial crunch I just spent $155 on groceries that probably would have cost about $100 between 2-3 years ago. I know that prices go up, and I understand there are global factors like the price of oil that will eleva

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Decompression time First day back from my holiday started great. Woke up, met my buddy and went to the gym for the first time in 12 days. Had a great workout then he treated me to breakfast at his place. Then I had a co

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Coming home I spent the day travelling today and now I’m home. What a fabulous holiday my wife and I had. It was wonderful to visit with my mom and sister. Unfortunately I spent the entire 10 days with a cough th

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Egoless learning I got to participate in a small Jujitsu class today with a buddy who is a black belt. The great thing about going to your first class with an expert is that there is no ego present. I knew before goin

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Game night When I’m visiting my mom, every night is game night. The game of choice these days is Rummikub. This has been played by our family in the early 1970’s when it first came to North America. It was my Pa

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Traffic flow I’ve had a couple days of long highway drives in Los Angeles and despite significantly more traffic than in Vancouver or Toronto, I have to say that traffic here flows very well. Two things make the f

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Morning sun It is better than coffee, stronger than a multivitamin, and more energizing than sleep or a good workout. It is the warm feeling of the early morning sun. Bathing in light, not yet too hot, whi

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