Matthew's Blog
4 Tweets per Day for 10 Years?
My ten-year Twitter Anniversary: February 18th, 2022. I have tweeted over 16,000 times, which means on average I have tweeted just over 4 tweets/day for the past ten years. This doesn’t mean I am a Twitter or social media expert, but it is something—at the least, a...
Hints to Nietzsche’s Career Change
I’ve always wondered why Nietzsche went from an academic, classical philologist to what can best be described as the anti-academic philosopher. Was this a gradual evolution, a pivot, or a radical change? Well, there may be some clues to be found in his Untimely...
Knowledge Foraging at The Library
Here are several of the definitions of "to forage" from the Oxford English Dictionary: 1. To collect forage from; to overrun (a country) for the purpose of obtaining or destroying supplies; to lay under contribution for forage. Also in wider sense, to plunder,...
Is There Moral Linkage Between an Individual and a Group?
One ethical question I am interested in is the relationship of an individual’s ethics with a group’s ethics (if such an entity exists). Specifically, what is the relationship between the architecture of a group and the moral responsibility of the individual who is a...
To Publish, or Not to Publish?
I have completed a poetry set that is now ready to self-publish. I have 50 haiku which I composed about 50 black and white photos (which I also “composed”). It’s a one-of-a-kind creative project, combining two mediums, and I am proud of it. Yet I find myself...
It’s a Live Track!
I took the photograph above about a year ago on what I thought was an abandoned railroad bridge. However, about 2 minutes after taking this picture, a train came from behind me, crossing the bridge! If I had still been on the bridge, and if I hadn't seen or heard that...
The Personal Data Big Healthcare Wants From Job Applicants
When applying for a healthcare job, I expect that acceptable data for a potential employer to collect would include such things as prior employment history, educational history, email address, etc. And I certainly believe in many healthcare jobs, background checks are...
Nietzsche, Einstein, and Boundaries
In Nietzsche’s essay An Attempt at Self-Criticism (section 2) we can find the following quote: The problem of science cannot be recognized within the context of science.Nietzsche How similar to Einstein’s better known (and much later) quote: We cannot solve our...
Acceptance, Mountain Climbing, and Politics
One thing that mountain climbing taught me is the value of acceptance. It is raining, or it is not, the route is open or it is not, the summit is attainable or it is not. I cannot debate the mountain, I cannot twist its arm, and I cannot trick it. My only duty is to...