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hope for the future of the emotional psyche

By jritch ⋅ May 24, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Recently I am challenged to distill the most important aspects of my mind and persona, to detail what my assets are as a human being. At this turning point in my life and career I must ask what I can give to the world, for on this I can base a long successful career not [...]

planning the roadtrip to Vancity

By jritch ⋅ April 19, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Updated 6/23/2009 Starting at University of British Columbia the first week of September means that it is appropriate for me to begin planning my move out to Western Canada. Jane is on board and will be bringing her car out to the Vancouver area. I will be abandoning my 2000 Saturn SL1, most likely at [...]

an easy transition to a producer economy?

By jritch ⋅ March 14, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Recently I’ve been struggling with the idea of the steps required for peaceful transition into what I would like to refer to as “producerism”. Producerism meaning the the new aspect of society that sees us making more of the things we use in our daily lives. We’ve been promised independence through prosperity, through economic growth, [...]

the greatest email ever received (by me)

By jritch ⋅ March 2, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

For those of you that may remember, a few weeks ago I received a rejection email from Stanford University to my dismay. Fortunately, an hour later Stanford emailed me back to say that I had been sent this message in error and that a decision had not yet been made on my admission for this [...]

My furniture is famous

By jritch ⋅ February 2, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

I had the surprise of talking with NPR’s Laura Davidson via the Planet Money Podcast last Friday about a trend my roommates and I noticed when buying our new living room furniture, the interview starts about 1:30 in, via Planet Money

Jacques Vallee brings a refeshing approach to UFOs

By jritch ⋅ January 13, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

During my recent stint at the Lousiana duck camp and on the plane to Long Beach I had the pleasure of reading the 2008 re-release of Dr. Jacques Vallee’s challenging and essential book on the UFO phenomena. This book blew my mind. It was the first truly scientific approach to the issue, free of pseudoscience and [...]

Consequences of a machine world

By jritch ⋅ January 6, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

In Charles Eisenstein’s latest post at Reality Sandwich he continues a spot-on commentary describing the disconnected nature of an “ideal” modern existence.