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This is the personal website of Justin N. Owings of Atlanta, Georgia. I am a business owner, blogger, health-enthusiast, husband and soon-to-be dad. If you're new here, the site content can be divided into four blogs — Writing, Linked Down, Workouts, and Reading. You can find the latest content here. This page serves to summarize all recent activity on the site. To the right are listed the five most recent posts, each with a brief clipping.
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Michael Jackson's Life a Disturbing Portrayal of American Culture — I submit that Michael Jackson's life is one of the more disturbing examples of modern American culture. He was an extreme case, for sure, but his problems are not unique: too much debt, too much spending, rent-seeking off of other's work, twisted narcissism, broken family, repressed sexuality, and dying young of a heart attack*, the end result of a life of stress and poor nutrition.
Shoot first and ask questions later (And have kids even if you don't want to) (Updated, sorta) — In short, I liken parenthood to doing first and understanding later. This is a good rule of thumb to apply across almost all facets of life -- lots of iterations make for lots of experiments through which we can learn about and enjoy life. Not having kids is a choice to have a drastically less-interesting, much more simplistic and sterile (literally and figuratively) life. I wouldn't wish that on anyone I care about.
"People are complicated!" — Why is this simple truth so hard to understand? If people are complicated, so are all systems of human interaction (i.e. markets, government, relationships, etc.). And it doesn't stop there, of course: all dynamic systems are complicated.
Chance Wins — This bit by Seth Roberts reminds me all at once of Nassim Taleb's work (Status quo, the fed turkey, works until it completely implodes), Seth Godin's "This is Broken" idea, and the dinosaurs going extinct.
Cross-Pollinating Ideas via the Internet — I call these occurrences examples of the "cross-pollination" of ideas. It's a collaborative, unpredictable, uncoordinated, complex effort whereby ideas and information gleaned from disparate sources are examined in relation to one another. It is knowing the trees and seeing the forest. The goal is to create more useful ideas and better information, and then spread this new knowledge far and wide. And do it over and over again. If this reminds you at all of evolutionary processes, not only are you catching my drift, you're cross-pollinating.
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