Blog of Josh Hall

Avoid causing conflict when possible.  ie: once you master rule #3, don’t do the things that other people are going to hate you for.  For example, if you’re going to stop your car in the middle of the street to talk to your friend on the sidewalk, make sure there’s no one behind you.  The […]

Do your best to avoid creating problems for yourself and your offspring.  IE: if you chose a name for them that is in any way entertaining, that’s setting them up to be taunted.  They’re name should be easy to pronounce correctly (phonetics works).  I knew someone named Parker Brothers, Chris Cross, and Secretia.  Those are […]

Although you have the right and freedom to express your ideas and ideals as you wish, you also need to respect the interpretation and misinterpretation of that from others.  IE:  You can name your kid after objects like “Blanket”, “Apple“, or even “Ocean”, but you’re going to seem a bit odd by social standards. Related: […]

There should always be a point or objective to arguing. Arguing for the sake of arguing or even pure self entitlement is just silly and possibly destructive. If you can’t offer a potential resolution on your own, or if you can’t think of something the other side can offer to resolve the conflict, then you’re […]

Nothing is universal. What works for you may not work for others. What’s also important here is to remember to think objectively and inversely. ie: What does not work for you, may work for others. An example of this would be the modern social networking tools out there. Just because you don’t use RSS feeds, […]

Nothing is just black or white. This is a very broad statement to cover many topics and objects. The point is there is always an exception or a gray area. It’s always relative to who is perceiving it.