Blog of Josh Hall

If you give an adult LEGO enthusiast a brick, he’s going to want a container to put it in. When you give him the container, he’ll probably ask you to help find all the bricks in his inventory of the same shape. When he’s finished finding all the pieces of the same shape, he’ll ask […]

you should always be a contributing member of society.  not for what you will leave behind, but for what you will enable others to do.  Non Nobis Solum, the Latin motto for “Not for ourselves alone” means that “it’s not for me, it’s for everyone.”  You’re life is to be lived giving from your gifts […]

human knowledge belongs to the world. You’re ridiculous if you claim your knowledge is your own.  There is so much that contributes to your knowledge that you’re taking for granted.  Also, if you keep your knowledge to yourself, you’re also preventing someone else from doing something else with it.  Maybe even making it better.

It’s been long  enough out of the original Napster era and RIAA filing extravaganzas that we can revisit this and see if there has been change.  In fact, there’s probably even room to take it a step further away from even acquiring music at all.  Some people may rely solely on places like last.fm, pandora, […]