Majicman Notes

The fact, and only the fact, that we are mortal, that our lives are finite, that our time is restricted and our possibilities are limited, this fact is what makes it meaningful to do something,… Read more

If you don’t strain the strings, and then try to break them, you’ll find it a difficult job; but strain a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the… Read more

Don’t bunt.Aim out of the park.Aim for the company of immortals. David Ogilvy Read more

Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is… Read more

There’s something fractal about rest: we need it daily, weekly and yearly. If you can bear the cumulative expense and the travel time, frequent short breaks beat the occasional elongated vacation. Reason one: holiday memories… Read more

And I’ll never forget when I asked for grand ma’s tomato sauce recipe and she said, “I’ll give you the recipe, but I’ll tell you one thing right now. It’s never going to be any… Read more

We’re all so busy doing our work that sometimes we fail to build a skill worth owning. If you invest 100 hours in a rare skill, you’re likely to acquire it. If you could learn… Read more

Almost immediately after France fell to the Nazis in 1940, the Allies planned a cross-Channel assault on the German occupying forces. At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt reaffirmed the… Read more

“At every increment of improvement in human history somebody got pissed off and said, ‘This can be better, this must be better’. To be a optimist has to mean being a critic. The enemy of… Read more

If I go downstairs to investigate a noise at night, with a gun in my hand, and find myself face to face with a burglar who has a gun in his hand, there is a… Read more