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Some people describe happiness as an overall feeling of contentment with your life, and your place in it. Others say it’s found only in fleeting moments. As for joy, while some describe it as a sustainable emotion, other people liken it to an intense flare that pops up at unexpected times. There’s no one way to define happiness and joy, and that’s ok. It doesn’t truly matter how we define these feelings, as long as we are continuously seeking the positive in life.

WHAT IS HEAVEN LIKE? And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. (Rev 21:23) An uncle of mine recently passed away (God rest his soul+). It was told to me that in the final days of his life he asked the hospital chaplain the question, “What is heaven like?” Now I have no idea how the chaplain answered that question for him, but it got me thinking, “how would I answer that question?

Remember that occasional dating series I promised a few weeks back? OK, let’s pick it up again. In today’s AMA, I cover an intriguing phenomenon in male-female dynamics playing out in the dark, twisted underworld that is dating culture, which came up in my initial post. If you missed this first post, here it is: The phenomenon is hypergamy. Or, more speci… ncG1vNJzZmirkaeuqcPIpaqopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6qZLCgkal6qr%2BMobCpnaKcrq7FjJqlnWWVrb2trcinZLCgqQ%3D%3D

My mother didn't smile much. She worked two jobs, took care of two kids, and chain-smoked. A Colombian raised in Puerto Rico, she stuck out in suburban Houston. She wore her hair in an afro spritzed til it dripped with jerry curl. She had cinnamon-colored skin that she bathed in cocoa butter. Her thick accent forced her to add an EH to every S. Instead of "bucks," she'd say "buck-sehs."

For the past several months, I’ve been fleshing out the analytics framework I call the Triangle. If you need to get caught up, here’s the 4 main articles that outline the concept of the Triangle, as well as the 3 points of the Triangle. I also described what I call Team Profiles, which are 7 different ways that teams might express strength or weakness in those areas of the Triangle. The last post in this series, Balanced, also contains links to the other posts in that series.

Metahumor is humor that makes fun of other humor or that deconstructs itself or otherwise talks about humor or the idea of laughter in an intellectual way as opposed to in a comedic or emotional way. One of the best examples of metahumor you’re ever going to hear is comedian Andy Daly’s standup set on the Comedy Death Ray CD (2007). I was owner-editor of … ncG1vNJzZmirk6TBtbDIpKKeqqNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGZpGK2tHnMnquaoKWivLM%3D

Motional has their HQ located in the Boston area. Motional is an American autonomous vehicle company founded in March 2020 as a joint venture between automaker Hyundai Motor Group and auto supplier Aptiv. I’ve been noticing Hyundai has gotten very forward looking of late, and I’ve always been impressed by the GDP per capital innovation quotient of South Korea. The race to robo-taxis is very interesting to me. They are in headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, but Motional also maintains operations in Pittsburgh, Singapore, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.

Have you ever thought you had a strategy for your team, only to find out “That’s not a strategy”? I have. The first time I had a plan, but it was all in my head. I knew my “strategy”, but no one else did. The second time I wrote a strategy document with the detailed framework of what it would take to win, but teammates couldn’t visualize it. There was no emotional weight, no inspiration.

Scaphism, also known as "the boats," was an allegedly used ancient Persian method of execution in which the victim was immobilized between two boats, smeared with a mixture of honey and milk, and left to be devoured by insects and maggots. The gruesome method was designed to inflict slow and agonizing suffering, with death eventually resulting from dehydration, infection, and maggot infestation. The first recorded mention of scaphism comes from the writings of the ancient Greek biographer Plutarch, who described the execution of the soldier Mithridates in his biography of Artaxerxes II Mnemon (r.