Blog of Josh Hall

Dreams never cease to amaze me.  How can my mind create this world while keeping my consciousness separate?  How can my brain orchestrate the responses and interactions between imaginary people while keeping it a surprise to me?  The other night, I had a striking example of this. I went into a grocery store to see […]

LEGO Ideas is a site set up for people around the world to submit their ideas for possible sets. After I created my Cathedral of Learning and Stephen Foster Memorial in the Spring of 2012, I had many people ask me if I was going to submit it as a project for LEGO to review. […]

How many garbage bags do you fill in any given week? Let’s keep it simple and say per person. With me, my wife, and daughter, we’ll get about 1 bag of garbage and 1 bag of recycling a week. I think that’s pretty good. I remember growing up, I used to take at least 10 […]

You can’t control others.   You can influence.  You can lead by example.  You can threaten.  You can scare.  You can encourage.  You can explain your point of view.  You can layout the logic and consequences of actions.  You can suck it up and walk away when they still don’t do what you say because […]

Corporations are not people. Corporations are run by people.  They are not individuals and should not be entitled to any rights, privileges, or opportunities that would supersede or even equal the rights of actual people.  

how often do you talk to people on the phone?  Answer the question for the people that are not physically close to you or that you don’t see in person regularly.  I’ve always had the desire to see people, but I’ve never really wanted to talk to people on the phone.  I just really dislike […]