—-Many literary critics regard Cat’s Cradle as Kurt Vonnegut’s best work. Vonnegut himself grades it as one of two A-plus’s in company only with Slaughterhouse-five which certainly deserves the grade. Though I myself might rank Sirens of Titan, Jailbird and maybe Breakfast with Champions above Cat’s Cradle there is without…

Daylight savings time is largely irrelevant today with most of us (sadly) spending more time under fluorescent lights than cosmic rays, yet it persists. While sunlight absolutely influences our internal clocks, the time on the clock is just a number. We eliminate the need for DST by simply allowing people…

One of the most valuable tenants of the philosophy school of Stoicism is the suggestion to let everything be your teacher, or put another way, to find wisdom in all things.  The practice of which is so powerful because it ties together and manifests in your day several other tenants…

“God help the man who says ‘you should have known me when'” – Gaslight Anthem Am I my best-ever self right now? Are you your best-ever self right now? Envy is a misguided emotion that’s typically directed towards someone else and it’s fed endlessly by our obsession with scrolling away…

“Idleness is the greatest prodigality” – Benjamin Franklin I’ve been ruminating on the concept and meaning of time for a few years now but increasingly deeply since this past summer. The quote above from Franklin, I found in his book, A Way to Wealth and it has stuck with me…

I primarily read non-fiction, aiming to derive some sort of applicable value from what I read. Vonnegut is a notable exception, and an obvious one to you at that, given I’ve named this project after one of his books. Vonnegut writes these meandering disconnected stories and you might find yourself…

“You were sick, but now you are well, and there’s work to do” – Kilgore Trout, Timequake When the timequake event runs its course and Trout fails to rouse the people around him with statements of free will he tries this mantra, “You were sick, but now you are well”.…

In Kurt Vonnegut’s book Timequake, we’re brought into 2001 but soon ushered back 10 years due to an event called a “timequake”. Sounds intriguing at first, who doesn’t want another shot at making the past years better? I wouldn’t mind the reboot. But that’s not how this time event works.…

Welcome to my new page, Timequake 2. I’ll be posting my first post soon but please check out my About and Now pages while I get the rest sorted out and I’ll look forward to sharing more with you soon.