This question is one of the two big questions in life. It is a difficult post for me because it is very personal. A person’s chosen purpose in life strikes to the essence of what and who they are. Even worse, my life purpose is not even very original or particularly memorable.
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I believe in Free Will. I can’t help it.
Why do you think you have free will?
When did you get free will?
What would change if you did not have free will?
Don’t Ask Permission, and Other Career Advice
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Wisdom from my son.
You Gotta Answer Two Questions
Why should I get out of bed this morning?
What do I wanna do when I grow up?
As you go through life, you have to answer two questions every day. Worse yet, the answers change occasionally, and you never quite get it right. Over time, you can develop an irritating friendship with these troublesome questions:
Continue reading “You Gotta Answer Two Questions”“Strike a Spark” Vanessa Barrett Welding Scholarship
We set up this scholarship in 2022 to honor Vanessa Barrett by supporting and encouraging people who might not be strong book learners, but have capability and desire to develop and achieve in demanding physical trades, such as welding.
Continue reading ““Strike a Spark” Vanessa Barrett Welding Scholarship”Emotions: The Killer App for Humans
Emotions were a killer app for homo sapiens to win the evolutionary strugle against other proto-humans. will they also be a “killer” app in this Age of Intelligence?
Emotions have been a killer app at least twice in human history. The first time, emotions helped us win the evolutionary race for survival. The second time, will emotions help us self-destruct?
Continue reading “Emotions: The Killer App for Humans”Why is Learning So Hard?
If you came here looking for wisdom, you will probably be disappointed. It seems like I have spent my entire life in some purgatory of forced learning, and I have not yet learned to love the learning process.
Continue reading “Why is Learning So Hard?”Welcome Home, Mom
My mother Loretta Barrett raised children, built a career in counseling high school students, traveled the world, and wrote her autobiography. Then she went back home to Galveston, Texas.
Continue reading “Welcome Home, Mom”We Do Hard Things
Sure, we do hard things. But, why?
Tradition … Dah, Dah, Dum
Traditions are the distilled wisdom and memory of culture. Watching them change can be unsettling.
Trail of Sparks 