Two or three work lifetimes ago, I was forced to go through hell for five straight days and there was nothing I could do about it. It wasn’t actual hell but it was a very strange and annoying period of time that mirrors exactly how […]

It’s Otto writing today and sometimes I’ll hear a song lyric, read a line in a book or hear something totally random on a TV show or on the Internet and it strikes me a little bit deeper than it ordinarily might. This happened to

Try as we might, we’re all terrible at predicting outcomes and relationship predictions in our lives–but we keep doing it. The problem is that we somehow think this will keep us safe, prepared for the worst or solve some problem in a backwards way but

For people who know me these days it’s probably hard to imagine me as a really angry person… But I was. Not all the time, but some of the time. Not just angry, but once in a while–bordering on rage and on a couple of

It’s Otto writing and I have a question for you… It’s a question that’s really important (especially in these crazy times we’re living in right now…) The question is… What are you trying to control in your life? Even if you aren’t aware of it,

If you’re like me, trying to control almost anything in my life right now seems pretty futile. Whether it’s the virus as it moves across the world, our social life, our work situation, the people we live with or even our emotions… The strategies we

Today we’re talking about choices and in particular, one that might be the most important choice you make. It’s a choice we’re all making hundreds, if not thousands of times a day. But most of the time we’re not even aware that we’re making it