bitcoin or your money back
So I was tipping suds last night with a friend while we turned wrenches on his mid-80’s Yamaha YZ 250. Somehow, even when greasy and stinking of old gas, I find it nigh onto impossible to avoid red pilling my friends and answering…
being a hero is an herculean task
Nearly every story of a Hero’s Journey involves change or transformation. In fact, it’s this very transformation that makes heroes out of ordinary people. Joseph Campbell laid all of this out for us in his famous and highly regarded books The Hero With…
biz lessons from bukowski
It can be a very dangerous thing to really ask yourself what you want in life. I mean, to really ask that question and to sit with the answer over and over again. You run the risk of letting people down, of demanding…
hammers don’t work
I have a friend who shares a remarkable hammer story. When he was a youngster, he would often work alongside his grandfather in a well-outfitted wood shop, making bird houses and boxes and such. His grandfather would regularly point out to him that…
heart to hands and back again
Yesterday I lost a personal hero. Robert M Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila died at 88. Sadly, there aren’t many heroes left. Like many other fans of Pirsig, Kerouack, Kesey, Sartre, et al, I discovered him…
ahhh, the joys of home-based production
SHINGLES! Oh no! Pallets and pallets of shingles! This is not the kind of thing you want to see when you look out the window of your studio in the morning. Admittedly, I have it pretty good most of the time. But there…