Selective Memories

1. Presence
2. Delve

1. Visualize
2. Reframe
3. Future self

1. Process
2. Environment
3. Love

After three years of off the blogging grid I’m happy to report that I’m back in action, primarily inspired by Seth Godin and his excellent podcast Akimbo. It’s a good time to dust off the cobwebs from the writing muscle and put words into the world, even if it’s still only for an audience of one. That audience is important enough to make this worthwhile.

Woman 1 to woman 2 heading to the park:

You’re going to laugh at me, but I actually brought my manicure kit…

-overheard at Broadway station

An inescapable treadmill of negative situations that continually unspool until waking up. Triggered by – brain too warm while sleeping? Combo with alcohol?

Life is a risk. Push your boundaries. Act outside of your comfort zone. Break out of your routines. Enjoy novelty. Embrace the unknown.

You realize how little you knew when you were younger, but it’s now too late to be able to apply your current knowledge to its fullest extent. And this cycle keeps on going the older you get, with no end until the end.

Way to buck the trend!

NYU inferiority complex regarding Columbia rears its head again! This time from a professor who actually graduated from Columbia herself! Amazing.

As I write this in New Year’s Eve in Cambodia, I’ve gotta say that 2014 was a great year. First and foremost I became an uncle and our family ushered in the first member of the next generation. Secondly I entered graduate school, making a whole new set of friends and learning entirely new subjects in the process. 2015 is looking highly promising based on current indications.

1. Barack Obama
2. Xi Jinping
3. Janet Yellen
4. Angela Merkel
5. Mario Draghi? Vladimir Putin? Larry Page + Sergey Brin?