September 2010
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Right now
The day before my flight’s departure to Shanghai, I had my first real day off in over a month and a half. That’s right, Alex Stillwell worked everyday including Saturday and Sundays. When you work that much, there is no time for thinking, no time for taking a step back and really thinking about what you’re working on.
Its different if you work for a company, have a set role,...
Rice
Since home from my tour de asia, rice has been more of a staple than ever before.
I’m eating a bowl of rice with my cheap, ornamental chop sticks. I was thinking back to the time I first fell in love with rice. It was a wednesday night, sometime in the dead of winter because it got dark out early. My Dad and I were home alone. Mom was at church. No cooked dinner. Leftovers. Rice leftovers....
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The Dollar Dilemma
The house in which I live is a cess pool for observing and testing hypothesizes about human behavior. Many conclusions have been made on many subjects including group dynamics, free rider problem, problem of the commons, broken hearts, depression, group think, “keeping up with the jones,” the 20-something’s reported “laziness,” alcoholism, drug use, drug abuse,...
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