Ten Things That Occurred to Me #31

1. Most Overused Phrase of the Week:  “So let’s jump right in!”

2. Many book reviews amuse me.  The ones I love the best are reviews of technical books that go something like “One star -- you didn’t write the book I wanted you to write, and I don’t care whether the book you did write is good or not.”

3. "This email could have been a Slack message" is the new "This meeting could have been an email message."

4. One of the bad things about social media is that it tends to make us “monoculturistic.” (I think I made that word up.) In other words, it seems to make us want to import culture into things that don’t belong.  One thing I like about my gym is that we pretty much talk about working out, sports teams, and maybe a TV or two.  I love that no one would dare mention politics there.

5. I find it kind of astonishing that anyone pays any attention to anything that comes out of Stephen A. Smith's mouth.

6. Human progress directly correlates with our realization that there is no upside to telling others how to live, what they should do, and who they should be. 

7. Everyone has biases. Everyone. The trick is recognizing what yours are and, before that, recognizing that you even have them.

8. It suddenly occurred to me that it is very likely that sitting out there in some kindergarten class is a young person who will become the world's first trillionaire.  And they will become so by providing something so novel, amazing, and stunningly useful that we all will want it and pay for it. That is a wonderful thing, and I'm sad that many people will vilify that kid as evil personified when he or she grows up.

9. Remember, kids -- the Congress makes the laws, not the Supreme Court. If you don't like what the SCOTUS does, it is almost certainly because it is, in fact, something that Congress has done that you don't like.

10. For what it is worth — when searching on Amazon, I always try to select the “Small Business” search box.