Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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4Ocean
I’m trying to find some charitable cause that sparks interest in the Fellas. Ford is crazy for the ocean these days with his obsession of Percy Jackson, so the three of us have started to wear some bracelets from an organization called 4Ocean. For $20 they pull a pound of plastic out of the water […]
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Lego Scream – April Painting
Hunter turned Seven. Not seven weeks, or even seven months, but seven years old. Joy, joy, scream, scream. Ford “Review. Best picture yet. Munch is a funny name. I like yours better than his.”
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The Meaning of Scouts
I think I’ve been watching too much The Newsroom. We recently had a promotion ceremony and The Fellas advanced to their next Scouting rank. As part of the event, they asked Dads who had been Scouts to talk a little about their scouting experience in their youth. Their hustling me to get involved on the […]
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Howard and Al
I just walked by the Paley Center for Media at 52nd and 5th and got a little nostalgic. Journey with me back to 1991, and the Paley Center is called The Museum of Television and Radio. I’ve somehow fallen into a friend group with three ladies of the MOTR — Diane Rosenberg (who I know […]
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Michelangelo Baseballeroti – March Painting
March means baseball, and between two boys that means about 9 days per week. It seems we are always on our way to practice, a scrimmage, or the store to get ANOTHER pair of cleats. It’s relentless and it is great. Ford’s review: “I recognize it from that church ceiling. You might be back on […]
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Newsroom is my new Shawshank
For a long time, if I were to catch even 20 seconds of The Shawshank Redemption I knew I was sitting down for the distance. Now it’s The Newsroom. I love me some Sorkin and this is a lovely tilt on the “we can do better” magic of The West Wing. Beyond the crazy great […]
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Wow, that’s a pretty good job…
Dr. Tewell at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian was charismatic and demanding. He didn’t suffer the Sunday-only Presbyterian who ignored their duties of officium et pecuniae (service and donation), and so FAPC had a very active volunteer team. It wasn’t unusual for Dr. T to finish service with “we’re not leaving here until I have two more […]
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risk vs. uncertainty
I’ve had the thrill of a combination of successful and less-than-successful startup experiences. The first ended in a 9/11 accelerated total collapse in 2001. The 30 seconds on it are “we had a little piece of software that got downloaded about 25,000 times, and if you were on, let’s say Amazon, looking at the latest […]
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Albert from Little House on the Prairie
It was late Winter, 1990 and the job hunt was in full swing. I had just returned from a trip to NYC with a half dozen other fellas for a round of interviews at Salomon, Prudential Securities and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Yes, that Drexel. I did eventually get a job offer from Drexel, but it […]
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Give Props to The ROTH
I’ve had the great joy of a closed-knit association with a couple of spectacular groups. The Fellas of Fiji, the Booz Allen Media Crew, myNYC poker/skiing fellas and my Founder’s Nest compatriots. Among the best is a group we called the “ROTH”, or the “Row of Total Hilarity”. This was a stellar group of humans […]
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