Morgan’s Blog

  • Life As a Mirror

    Do you feel like your experiences keep repeating themselves? The same problems … over and over … cycling back around to the same stuff?! A tourist attraction shows us how life can sometimes be like a frustrating hall of mirrors… but it doesn’t have to be.

  • Blame it on …. the randomness!

    The laws of physics as we know them? How did they arise from the primordial soup of the Big Bang? Blame it on randomness…

  • Barenaked Ladies: An exercise in understanding why we are all subjective

    To some, spending this much money and time may seem irrational. If you’re not a fan of this particular band – or of going to concerts in general – your first thought may have been “Morgan is crazy, I would never do that!” Let’s discuss why reason fails you…

  • Embracing the “Inner Asshole”

    Administrative roadblocks, aggressive colleagues, and depressing news: things like these are rampant. The question is, how should we deal with them? Many of us often choose to take the “safe” route of staying cool-headed and rational. That’s what we’ve been taught to do for most of our academic lives. But who does that “cool-headedness” really […]

  • Top-10 Beliefs That Are Ruining Your Life

    Wait a sec. How can a belief ruin your life? It’s just a measly little set of biochemical connections in your mind, no way can it have that kind of impact…. right!? What if you believed that all water is toxic? If you truly believed this, deep-down, you’d avoid all sources of water… and soon, […]

  • Why Artificial Intelligence Won’t Take Over the World

     Any “free agent” that operates in our world must have an objective, or it is not going to get very far. This is true of people. If you ever observe people who “go in circles” or are “stuck” in life – it’s because they have no clear vision/objective. Many people give up on their […]