Shock Notes

I read a lot of books.  Most of the books I read don’t do much to change my life.  Some of them, however, change everything. Everyone needs to have a Bible in their life.  Whether it’s The Bible, some other religious text or a secular book doesn’t matter.  Everyone needs a book to live their life […]

There is a saying that says everybody gets 15 seconds of fame in their lives.  Talk to an elderly person and ask what his or her most famous moment was, and you might be surprised.  Time forgets everything eventually.  Even the person with the lowliest appearance in old age was mighty once… for 15 seconds. […]

Time seems to fly faster as we age.  It’s hard to believe that it has been 12 years since the Virginia Tech shooting.  Forty-nine people were shot by Seung-hui Cho, including one of my friends who was shot in the face and was lucky to survive.  I had already graduated two years prior and was working […]

62 people have the wealth of half the world’s population, according to a report by Oxfam International.  The number has been shrinking since at least 2010, when 388 individuals had the wealth of half the world’s population.  What is shocking is despite the recent progress of the world’s poorest countries, the gap between the richest and […]

Baseball’s 3,000 hit club is as sacred as its 500 home run club. Only 31 players have ever reached 3,000 hits in Major League Baseball. The most recent were Adrián Beltré and Ichiro Suzuki. Let me talk about Ichiro for a moment. What makes Ichiro’s accomplishment more impressive is that he did it all after age […]

This article was originally posted February 9, 2016. On January 10, I received an e-mail from TurboTax.  “Special Offer Enclosed. Open Now!” it said in the subject line. I opened the e-mail and a colorful picture loaded with big bold letters, “One Week Only SAVE UP TO $15! January 10-16”.  Then there were a bunch […]

With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. Since discovering blogging in 2002, Darren Rowse has established […]

With the amount of data being generated in our lives daily, it’s easy to let things get out of hand.  At one point, I had over 4,000 articles in my “read later” list.  I also had over 20,000 digital photographs sitting on my hard drive, with more added every week.  Hundreds of videos sat waiting […]

Makes 5 servings Equipment Rice cooker Small saucepan Spatula Ingredients 7oz sticky rice, soaked overnight 12oz unsweetened coconut milk 6oz coconut sugar 2tsp salt 15g granulated sugar 14g rice flour 3 tbsp water 2 mangos, peeled, pitted, and sliced Directions Drain soaked rice and cook it in a rice cooker with about 12 ounces of water. […]

More than 300,000 book titles are published each year in the United States alone.  About a trillion gigabytes of digital data are generated every year.  Over 25 million hours of new video is uploaded to Youtube each year.  There are about 1,200 coffee roasters and over 3,000 breweries in the United States alone.  There are over […]