Thinking out in text: philosophy or madness.

This appears to be the definition of courtesy most people are familiar with: “supplied free of charge to people who are already paying for another service.” (Google search). As in, “courtesy shuttle” or “courtesy vehicle”. Another, seemingly lost, definition of the word is: “the showing of politeness in one’s attitude and behavior toward others.” (Google…

Whether you realize it or not, your mind’s eye charts a course for you. It’s not a point for point, stop for stop course like your GPS might provide you on a trip. It’s more like a “as the crow flies” course. Goes around mountains and tall building but right over a house or a…

From ganglion to grey matter, the human brain has had quite a journey of development and evolution. As with a computer, the newer/advanced layers depend on accessing the functionality of the layers below. Unlike a computer, each layer has it’s demands – and sometimes that which the lower layer wants can only be delivered by…

Everything we know is built on something that became known before it. Sparks lead to fires. Everything seems to work this way – fashion, science, technology, art, you name it. You conceive of something, an idea, a technique, a process whatever it might be, and then it gets used to create something new and so…

Given a large enough sample, all possibilities will be represented. So it is with the human population. Lets take the “good” and “bad” of the population. Percentage wise, the numbers don’t change but when applied to a growing population, the actual number of individuals increases for each category. Then, within each category, there is a…

Ah crap…if I post this, will it make me look like I don’t actually know what I am talking about? Replace “post” with something else and it probably still describes the thought that goes through the mind of many people suffering through a condition known as “Imposter Syndrome”. Likely, it stems from a lack of…