True Stories 3

True Stories 3

About True Stories. This is my story, my experience of life with a woman who has borderline personality disorder. The Borderline will deny most or all of this, but that too is typical borderline behavior. I tell my story because it is true and because there are many...
Fail Early

Fail Early

Nassim Taleb points out that one of the fundamental beliefs that built America was that if you worked hard, were smart with your resources and met the needs of the market, then you would likely succeed. This type of approach Taleb categorizes as...
True Stories 2

True Stories 2

About True Stories. This is my story, my experience of life with a woman who has borderline personality disorder. The Borderline will deny most or all of this, but that too is typical borderline behavior. I tell my story because it is true and because there are many...
True Stories 1

True Stories 1

I prefer to be honest even if it makes me look bad rather than tell lies that might make me look good. I like myself better when I am honest.  I used to travel a lot in my job. On multiple occasions, I would come home to my house and my family and my (now ex-) wife...
The weirdest thing I’ve seen today

The weirdest thing I’ve seen today

  Ahhh, Lace Stockings… It’s the first day of finals here at Arizona State, and looking out my window it is clear that the students are cutting loose. (Unlike me, who is up to his eyeballs in alligators trying to get a Uniflow installation completed...

A Low-Band-Pass Filter on My Ear

I’m losing hearing acuity in my right ear. It’s very odd. I have high-frequency hearing loss, apparently from sort of genetic nerve damage/sickness/failure, and I am really starting to notice it. My dad and his two brothers are both wearing hearing aids,...