
Reputation
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – Dale Carnegie I love this quote for two reasons. The first is that reputation is a heavy-loaded word, surrounded by double meanings, and this simple definition of…

Small Talk
I found this excerpt from a Medium article that I sadly can’t find for some reason. I often save excerpts like this that I find fascinating and then build a blog post around them. It helps to have some piece of writing to go off of as if someone provided some insightful bit in a…

Presence
Last June I went to one of the most incredible music festivals known by many in the electronic music scene, surrounded by the shade and beauty of Michagen’s pine and spruce trees: Electric Forest. A month before the festival, over fifty thousand other attendees and I received a welcome package: wristband, stickers, a sunglasses pouch,…