It is fashionable today to "fail harder" and to "fail faster." These concepts from the worlds of communications and technology are meant to take the sting out of failure -- the purpose being to encourage the kind of risk taking that accelerates growth and positive...
Jerry Garcia Life Lesson #3
You have to learn the rules before you can begin to artfully deconstruct them. Of course, all serious artists and thinkers do learn the rules first, it's the artful deconstruction that eludes so many. Jerry Garcia Life Lesson #3: Defy Convention Jerry Garcia grew up...
Jerry Garcia Life Lesson #2
To make or provide from available materials. Jerry Garcia Life Lesson #2: Improvise Jerry's brother, Tiff, accidentally removed his little brother's middle finger with an axe when Jerry was young. Thus, Jerry literally did not have the finger-picking ability of other...
Jerry Garcia Life Lesson #1
Jerry Garcia was born on this day in 1942. In the years since his death on August 9, 1995, Garcia fans have taken to celebrating "Nine Days of Jerry,' which covers the span from August 1st (his birthday) to August 9th. This year, with encouragement from Darby, I am...
Takhlakh Lake To Rattlesnake Hills And Back: A Journey Around The Lonely Volcano
I recently pitched Travel & Leisure on a "three days in Oregon food and beverage experience," and I can see how that article--and the trip it will require to write it--plays out. But more on that another day. Today, I want to detail a different route into the heart of...