What’s the Deal With Electrolytes, Anyway?

In the comedic, dystopian film Idiocracy, set in 2505, all water in the United States has been replaced with a Gatorade-like drink called Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator. They even water the crops with Brawndo because Brawndo supposedly “has what plants crave”: electrolytes.  Well, replacing plain H20 (which, in Idiocracy, is only used in toilets) with Brawndo kills the […]

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Defining Culture And How To Use It To Inspire Change

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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for July 24, 2023

NV Cockburn's No. 1 Special Reserve Port (Portugal): Getting the job done with rich, baking spice-laden flair. $20 B NV Piper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut (Champagne): Nutty, toasty, fruity, poised, and surprisingly up for a good time. $60 A- 2019 Tinto Pesquera Crianza (Ribera del Duero): This is all smoky, gamey, plummy goodness, with a side of […]

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Podcast #914: Set Your Future Self Up for Success

As you move through time, you exist as a present self who makes decisions, an in-between self who should carry out those decisions, and a future self who will benefit from those decisions. Yet as we all know, in-between self often fails to follow through on what present self resolves, leaving future self pretty bummed […]

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Sunday Firesides: Act or Be Acted Upon

The world can be divided into agents and objects.  Things that make stuff happen, and things that have stuff happen to them. The shaper, and the shaped. The mover, and the moved. The driver, and the screw. No one is ever entirely one or the other, and you should be open to allowing positive influences […]

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