Tag: effort

This year, I’d like to talk a bit about shogi, the Japanese variation of chess.  You may be thinking “but you do that every year,” but this year I hope to give some context to my annual report on how I continuously fail to raise my shogi skill level.

Perhaps because I spent most of 2017 thinking about time and how there is never enough of it, I dedicated 2018 to making the most of my limited time seeking to accomplish something new and concrete outside of my day job.

One of my first job interviews in high school was also one of the most memorable.  For some reason, I was being interviewed by three people who looked like they were all in college.  One guy in particular looked like a punk and he acted like it during the interview.

He, of twenty-odd years old, gave

A couple months ago, I defended lawyers. To show that I can make myself even more lovable, today I defend my educational background, which I thought spoke for itself.  For this show of narcissism that's paralleled, y'all can thank my office neighbor, who, upon hearing the details of my academic history,  questioned whether I slipped through the