Monthly Archives: July 2010

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Change is a word that creates fear and unrest in most people. Change means uncertainty. Change means that we loose a little control. When we change something we venture from what is safe to what is unknown. But to improve we have to change. To not change may be safe and comforting, but it is [...]

My Favorite Novels

Below is a list of my current favorite novels. Too much is going on in these novels for me to tell you the plots, so I will just list my response. I suppose I need some manly books on here. The truth is I don’t read many new fiction books these days as I’m either [...]

To Get Good Practice More

I’ve talked in two posts now about how to get good at something. Now I want to encourage you to go deeper in your chosen discipline. You may find what I’m about to say discouraging, but I’ll say it anyway. In “Talent is Overrated” Geoff Colvin says that across almost all disciplines there seems to [...]

Liver – The Other Red Meat

For all the people who asked me why I have started eating liver here is a chart that compares some of the vitamins and minerals in liver with apple, carrot, and red meat. I got this table out of a powerpoint presentation by Sally Fallon. The numbers on the table will vary based on the [...]

How to Exercise to be Fit and Healthy

When reading this please have an open mind. Whenever evaluating long held beliefs about scientific questions it helps to understand that much of what we are told is simply scientists guessing. They make guesses (hypotheses), do some preliminary testing and then tell everyone about them. I don’t have a problem with this. What else can [...]