Lee Smith, ND

Seth’s Blog

• “So far”/”Not yet”
  What to do in the face of failure? What happens when you’ve done your best and it still doesn’t get the review, close the sale or win the race? One approach is to embrace the easy path of “did my best” = “failure” therefore, I should give up or simply accept mediocrity. The other, the […]
• What does ‘better’ mean?
  It’s trickier than it sounds. It’s often conflated with ‘quality’ (which means consistent adherence to spec) and ‘luxury’ (which means it costs more than it needs to). Here’s the thing: Swedish matches are better. They might be the best in the world. They do everything a match should do–but better. They light more quickly, burn […]
• Overwhelmed is a choice
  The internet is infinite. For humans, anyway. In the time you’ve been reading this, more than an hour of video has been uploaded to YouTube. You will never catch up. The thing is, the world has always been infinite compared to human scale. Living on a bucolic farm in the 14th century, there was no […]