Subject: The Dude abides

The Dude abides

October 13th, 2023 at 4:35 pm PDT

Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners View onlineA lot of our folks who get these regular emails came over from my podcast, The Brian D. O'Leary Show. I also co-host another show called the Natural Order Podcast. Admittedly, I've been too inconsistent ...

Do friends have to be 'people?'

October 10th, 2023 at 4:21 pm PDT

Coffee is my friend View onlineJerry Seinfeld's Comedians in the Car Getting Coffee is a show I'd never seen until a couple weeks ago. It is a fun show! More importantly, it solidified my license to drink coffee all day long like Jerry and his frien ...

How Baywatch saved my life

October 9th, 2023 at 4:55 pm PDT

I believed in the power of Hasselhoff View onlineI have a bunch of stories from back in the day when I used to guide trout fishermen. In these letters, you've probably read a few already. Although I wasn't guiding this particular day, I was fishing ...

My Jersey Mike's love affair

October 6th, 2023 at 4:12 pm PDT

made stronger because of their rewards program View onlineEarlier in the week, I wrote about Chick-Fil-A. I love their sandwiches and their customer service is phenomenal. However, their rewards program is rather convoluted and doesn't have a ton of ...

How to achieve clear 'vision' without a heavy prescription

October 5th, 2023 at 3:25 pm PDT

But wear glasses if you need them View onlineOne thing that keeps coming up in my notes is the concept of clarity. Clear vision. For eyeballs ... and ideas. Over the last several years, I have experimented with blue light-blocking glasses for worki ...

A true love story—Chick-fil-A and me

October 3rd, 2023 at 5:09 pm PDT

But I hate the lines View onlineChick-fil-A used to be an exclusively southern thing. Now they have them in 48 states. The chain started in 1946 as the Dwarf Grill in suburban Atlanta. Fifteen years in to his restaurant career, founder S. Truett Cat ...

Since people are asking, I'll tell you

September 29th, 2023 at 8:17 pm PDT

What do I have in mind? View onlineSome folks excited about our new virtual mastermind —O'Leary's Inner Sphere. Tell me more about this thing. When is it going to start? What is an inner sphere? Like a mastermind, mastermind? Napoleon Hil ...

What does a cougar attack and a haircut have in common?

September 29th, 2023 at 3:03 pm PDT

Not a joke, just a sad reflection on my instincts View online Trust your instincts, is fairly common advice. I don't know where I come out on that. When I was working in the outdoor industry, a co-worker of mine recounted a tale of a fishing trip he ...

Dr. Fauci is an expert.

September 28th, 2023 at 2:49 pm PDT

So what? He's also evil View onlineIn order to learn, we look toward experts. College, in particular, is supposed to be full of them, though the jury is still out on whether that is true. As we move forward in life, there are experts everywhere. Fol ...

You're an expert. Tell us about it.

September 27th, 2023 at 4:09 pm PDT

Don't be shy View onlineThere's something I noticed recently that kind of bothers me. I don't know why it should, because I have nothing to do with it. Several online creators I follow have notices on their blog, podcast, emails, etc. that I don't h ...