Eric Scheske

Decent Self-Help Advice I normally don't find articles like this terribly helpful: The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People [https://medium.com/mind-cafe/the-7-habits-of-highly-ineffective-people-44b0ff317be] . I tend to find the advice either blase or informed by a bad worldview ("You have to be a winner!"). But this

The Close Talker Congratulations to Joe Biden. The Establishment has their candidate in the driver's seat. I look forward to the "Sleepy Joe" references, the close talking, the awkward touching, and a #MeandJoeToo movement. There is one thing I despise: unwanted touching and close talking. I

Screwing Up the Binary Narrative Welcome to Super Tuesday. Yeah, I don't really care either. The Establishment has spoken: Biden gets to win. Of course, I wasn't thrilled at Bernie winning, and Buttigieg makes me . . . uncomfortable. But I'm not an establishment guy at any

Autobiographical Rumblings [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2020/3/1/episode-65-autobiographical-rumblings] Abbreviated episode. I've been moving into a new house. Things have been a bit crazy. Show Notes are sparse, to say the least: My family moved to a new house today. The future looks bright (cue Timbuk

Moving Bottles Moving weekend. Whew. I've taken care of all the things I care about: my books, my liquor, and my gardening stuff. But Marie is now demanding that I help with the non-essentials, like food and furniture. It's going to be a long weekend. But

Sleep Trick I rarely fall asleep while listening to anything, but I've long used some sort of recorded narrative to get back to sleep after I wake up in the middle of the night. Marie once asked me why, and I said, "I listen to semi-boring stuff.

A man spoke to each of his three sons when he sent them to college. "I feel it's my duty to provide you with the best possible education, and you do not owe me anything for that. However, I want you to appreciate it. As a gesture

Lent and the Babylon Bee Welcome to Lent 2020. It's a season of penance, renewal, and grace. It don't get no better than that. Of course, it's also the season of the coronavirus, a collapsing stock market, and a Socialist front-runner, so maybe the

GoFundMe I'm a big fan of GoFundMe. As a rule, I try to donate at least a few dollars to any campaign that helps a person dealing with a mortal situation, as long as I have any corroborating evidence that the cause is legit. There are too many

Gnostics v. Metaxy, GMO v. Non-GMO, Athens v. Sparta [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2020/2/23/episode-64-gnostics-v-metaxy-gmo-v-non-gmo-athens-v-sparta] Gnosticism matters because it has heated up lately. Heck, that's an understatement. It was simmering in the 18th-19th centuries. It boiled in the 20th centuries. In the 21st century, it