Posts tagged “philosophy”

You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.
Merlin Mann

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)

A Last Meal

A Last Meal

I am increasingly convinced that a tremendous amount of yin and yang is important to a successful marriage. My wife and I have dramatically different opinions about dining, for example: She lives to eat. I eat to live. If you were to give each of us an hour to decide what we wanted for a

Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies

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The Offseason

In which I mourn the ending of another college football season

Not Usually Like This

Not Usually Like This

On empathy

Dangerous Mistakes

Dangerous Mistakes

Winning is an all the time thing.

“You can’t tell people about your problems. Ninety percent don’t care; and the other ten percent are glad you got ’em.”

Lou Holtz

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.