Every time a colleague bumps another colleague on the street or in an elevator, the first question that’s always asked is, “So, are you busy?” And the answer is always “Yeah. Crazy busy”. “I’m so busy” has pretty much become the default response when we ask anyone how they’re doing. It comes across as a boast […]
Time appears of an unmeasurable length. Unless you smoke weed. With weed, the notion of time is completely overthrown. The moments are years, and the minutes are centuries. That’s why all of the great jazz musicians smoked weed, beginning with the King of Jazz himself, Louis Armstrong. He (and his contemporaries) smoked weed every day […]
It’s easy to think the world is getting worse and worse by the day. Just watch the news or any other current affairs program in the media. The media focuses on “newsworthy” single events, and single events are often bad — plane crashes, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, wars, and murders. Positive developments, on the other hand, […]
