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We can rarely identify it as it happens. Usually, it takes hindsight to point and say: "That's when it happened. After that, I was a different person." For 25 years of my life, Howard Shore's iconic theme of the Shire in Lord of the Rings was just a song

The main plot point of Devil May Cry, a hack-n-slash video game series revolving around demon hunter Dante, is revenge. The king of the underworld, Mundus, killed both of Dante's parents, one to see through his plan of conquering the human realm, the othe

When's the last time you did that on purpose? For me, it was years-until yesterday. I sat on my sunbed in the garden, working. It was mid-afternoon, and I got tired. I closed the laptop and laid down. I shut my eyes and listened to the environment. When I

After day one of our annual company get-together, I already had a lot of feedback. The food was not as nice as the year before. The sessions were more work-focused, which was good, but the event now lacked the human element altogether. There weren't enoug

Yesterday, I sent off a big Pokémon card order, then closed all tabs. I wanted to hit pause on my collection for a few months to better focus on writing. There's always another card to chase, another set coming out, but, most of the time, you don't miss t

Don't you have one? Perhaps it's just me with my overly digital lifestyle. Often, the moments I appreciate the most go back to nature and the natural. Stepping outside into my garden. Touching grass, touching my tree. Turning paper pages in a real book. I

One of my coworkers consistently calls me out every time I say something along the lines of, "Oh, I'm stupid, I forgot to link the doc." "You mustn't say that," she'll counter. "Don't beat yourself up." She's right, of course. Verbal self-abuse is only th

My goal is to write this daily blog in 15 minutes. Every morning, I start a timer and try to finish before it rings. Sometimes, the fight is lost before it begins. Today, I was looking for Star Wars music. I got sidetracked into a movie trailer, then a fe

For the closing dinner of a work event, we went into a mineshaft that's used as a testing ground for new tunneling technology. Before reaching the restaurant that was hidden in the mountain, the staff did a small demonstration of a rock detonation. They u

That seems to be a good proxy for what makes a solid book topic. Of course, it's not about being controversial for the sake of being controversial. Your project needs a meaningful theme that comes from the heart. But from which angle you look at it, that'