UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway took a rifle to his head and blew his brains out. He was a few weeks short of his 62nd birthday.
He was a Pulitzer Prize winner. He was awarded the Nobel prize. He was a tour de force in literature.
And still a relatively young man, he took his life [...]

Life is a delicious and dangerous paradox.
Allow me to put this in perspective. Of sorts.
Successful people generally want one or both: money and/or power. And they pursue them. Often both simulstaneously.
If life is good, and God smiles on them, they achieve both. In the vast majority of cases this is so because they are smart [...]

When I was a teenager, the rolling, rumbling drumbeat of an oncoming thunderstorm was a clarion call for me to run outside into the slashing water and the electric bolts and take in the random beauty of nature gone wild.
I did not believe lighting could strike me. I had not an iota of concern about [...]

Isaac Newton was born. And thus began the life of one of two of the most important scientists in history, the other being Albert Einstein.
But I’m not interested in their science right now. More so in their government service, or lack of it.
Allow me to explain:
In 1696, Newton became England’s Warden Of The Royal Mint. [...]

Sometimes the world does things it’s not supposed to do and we quickly chalk it up to anomolies. Aberations. Freaks of nature.
But why this rush to dismiss as opposed to learn. To marvel. To seek epiphanies from the extraordinary. To draw connections to our own lives.
This synthesis is where true breakthroughs emerge.
One August, early in [...]