by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Uncategorized
One of my favorite foods is my free-range and pasture-raised, organically-fed eggs. Rightly or wrongly, I imagine a brood of healthy chickens running randomly around a field, laying their eggs for my future breakfast. (I may not be totally off the mark here. Check out...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Photography, Poetry, Writing
How many poems does it take for me to say, “I write a little poetry, too.” For me, that number is fifty. Or, more specifically, fifty haiku based on fifty of my black-and-white photos. ( See some of the photos above.) Sure, it’s an arbitrary number, but it is large...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing, Writing Habits
People need a place to think, their own “thinking-spot.” Here’s one of my thinking-spots, about a ten-minute drive from my home, on the shores of Lake Washington, in a city called Kirkland. (It’s not my best thinking-spot—I want to keep that one a secret!) It has all...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Twitter Ethics
mob: A disorderly or riotous crowd, a rabble.—Oxford English Dictionary When you use Twitter, you are part of a digital mob. For the moment you may be in a friendly part of your Twitter mob, surrounded by your digital friends, moving with them, and supporting each...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
I recently blogged about how much I appreciated one aspect of the design of the aluminum can, and in this blog (Aluminum Cans, EHRs, and Incidental Design) I mentioned Alcoa and Reynolds Metals. Corporations are embedded into our lives, and determine much of the...
