Duane Rollins

Ideas are born from experiences. If you want better ideas, vary your experiences. When our experiences are narrow or routine, our ideas become stale and obvious. There are many ways to vary your experiences, but the technique I use most is adjacency. This is when you do something new that

2022 has been all about giving myself grace. I can't do things in the same way as in previous years, but that's OK. In that spirit, I do want to share some things that I think are worth revisiting from 2022. The format is a bit

Sometimes in life we feel like the court jester. We perpetually find ourselves in midst of a juggling act. Given that we must continuously toss things up in the air to handle everything that is required of us, a ball or two is inevitably going to fall at some point.

Life is not guaranteed. You feel that acutely when doctors avoid eye contact with you as they try to explain something using their most advanced medical terms because they can't bring themselves to say I don't know what's going to happen, it doesn'

Note: This is a verbatim conversation that I had with ChatGPT. Me: In laymen's terms, what is ChatGPT? Response: ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses a language model called GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) to generate text. It is trained on a large dataset of human-generated text and is

All of US history has occurred within a single Pluto orbit. from coolguides The more you know. Our relative time as a nation has been short on a cosmic level. For all of it's flaws, America is still learning, growing, and developing - we still have much to

This week, sprint downhill. "Look for situations where the energy is already flowing downhill. Invest in relationships where there is already mutual respect. Create products that tap into a desire people already have. Work on projects that play to your strengths. And then, once the potential of the situation

This is a cyclist using his knowledge of physics and aerodynamics to gain a competitive advantage Michael Guerra unclips from his pedals, lies down on the seat and stretches out his legs to achieve ultimate aerodynamic efficiency.pic.twitter.com/FUBFsvMbVk — Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) December 6, 2022

I love getting that "extra" hour of sleep but it comes with the steep price of darkness coming for us all at 4:30 pm :( It gives me the blues. Normally, I'd just sit in my sadness, but I have found something to pick me up

Usually, on Fridays I like to share articles/videos from around the web that were truly interesting to me and worth your time. I'll still do an abbreviated version of that, but I wanted to take some time out this morning to just write. My computer is filled