Jim Applegate

Jim Applegate

Clean your plate

“There are kids starving in Africa.” Many of us heard some variation of this when we were kids. The joke is, many of us thought that the garbage disposal sent the food we

The want/enjoy matrix

This is an expansion of the “Finding the want [https://www.jimapplegate.com/2018/09/29/finding-the-want/]” article. When you say “I have to”, you mean 1. You don’t really enjoy it,

All or nothing

If you want to see the world clearly, you have to be willing to throw away everything you think you know. Otherwise, you’ll end up creating rationalizations around the parts you’re

Looking for allies

It’s common for politicians to look for and even manufacture enemies. Enemies unite us in opposition and give us a reason to ignore our differences. We can react to them with power