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Perhaps there are thoughts we cannot think


  1. D3.js in Jekyll Markdown

    I’ve used d3.select to target an element <div id="example"> in this document: …


  2. Profit vs. Purpose

    The idea that all of the world should be measured in dollars to stockholders is actually a relatively new idea. It used to be that we thought that businesses had their purpose. Your purpose was to be making newspapers or fountain pens or whatever. And now we act as though the only purpose of a business was to enrich the people who trade it on Wall Street… Of course you’ve got to have profit, of course you’ve got to support your ownership. But that’s not why we’re doing it. We’re doing it because publishing a newspaper is a crucial thing to be doing. ~Andy Barnes


  3. 5-Step Process

    Time is like a river that will take you forward into encounters with reality that will require you to make decisions. You can’t stop the movement down this river, and you can’t avoid encounters. You can only approach these encounters in the best way possible. …


  4. Unthinkable Thoughts

    Just as there are odors that dogs can smell and we cannot, as well as sounds that dogs can hear and we cannot, so too there are wavelengths of light we cannot see and flavors we cannot taste. Why then, given our brains wired the way they are, does the remark, “Perhaps there are thoughts we cannot think,” surprise you? ~ Richard Hamming


  5. Creating on Principle

    Craftsman, entrepreneur, or activist? …


  6. Howdy!

    I wish I would have started writing down my thoughts long ago. Writing brought to us something that was only a fleeting memory before. Writing allows for deeper throughts. My writing may be random, infrequent, and riddled with spelling errors, but maybe it’ll be helpful to me in the long run. …


  7. Welcome to Jekyll!

    You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve --watch, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated. …