I’ve been using Sam Harris’ meditation app, Waking Up. One of the biggest challenges I’m facing is the concept of everything “existing in consciousness.” It’s not that I disagree–it’s that I don’t understand what the alternative would be.
Read MoreFavorite Nonprofit Books
Here is a non-exhaustive collection of the books that have impacted the way I look at non-profit work.
Read MoreHeaded to Mars!
I've been a fan of the Mars missions ever since my uncle, Doctor Cosmo, turned me on to it from the first rover. He was a graphic designer (and jack of many other trades) and created an animation of the dancing baby on the pink planet.
A few missions later, I sat alone in my 1 bedroom apartment in Salt Lake after midnight to see the success of the Curiosity rover. I'm not ashamed to say I was brought to tears seeing the excitement of the engineers in mission control.
So I'm looking forward to the next one - MARS 2020. If you're an uber nerd, you can even get your own boarding pass and send your name to Mars. Not sure exactly what that means, but I got mine!
Read for your life!
Reading has become a renewed passion for me lately. (I even picked up 1984 and The Old Man and the Sea from high school!)
A series of research studies are showing a surprising benefit: reading can actually help you live longer!
Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules for Aging Well says, "One twelve-year study showed that if seniors read at least 3.5 hours a day, they were 17 percent less likely to die by a certain age than controls who didn’t read. Read more than that and you increase the number to 23 percent. The reading has to be of books, long form. While reading mostly newspaper articles did something positive, the effects were smaller."
So do like Marie Kondo, pull those books off your bookshelf, and wake them up!!
[Book Review] DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
I read the book because I've never been a strong salesperson. And now I know why - I won't lie to a customer, no matter how small or insignificant the lie to get an extra few bucks.
Read MoreVeteran's Day - SEAL Team Six
I'm applying to the chiropractic clerkship in the Tacoma, Washington Veteran's Affairs hospital. While writing my letter of intent, I was trying to think of how I, as the son of a Quaker-pacifist and grandson of a conscientious objector, have any connection to veterans of the military.
Read MoreAutism Spectrum Disorder - Research Paper
This quarter I'm in a pediatrics class. I chose autism spectrum disorder for our written research project. Autism is controversial, especially with respects to the alternative medicine therapies. Many chiropractors, nutritionists, and medical doctors make fantastic claims about what can treat autism. I have been curious to know more about the research behind these claims and was glad to finally have a legitimate excuse to really read the journal articles more deeply. I wrote it pretty quickly (so it isn't as polished as I'd like) and I had to limit it to 4-5 pages even though there are many more topics I wanted to discuss. Here's the final paper in blog form.
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