Headed to Mars!

Nathan Cashion August 9, 2019

I've been a fan of the Mars missions ever since my uncle, Doctor Cosmo, turned me on to it from the first rover. He was a graphic designer (and jack of many other trades) and created an animation of the dancing baby on the pink planet.

A few missions later, I sat alone in my 1 bedroom apartment in Salt Lake after midnight to see the success of the Curiosity rover. I'm not ashamed to say I was brought to tears seeing the excitement of the engineers in mission control.

So I'm looking forward to the next one - MARS 2020. If you're an uber nerd, you can even get your own boarding pass and send your name to Mars. Not sure exactly what that means, but I got mine!

Read for your life!

Nathan Cashion February 4, 2019

Reading has become a renewed passion for me lately. (I even picked up 1984 and The Old Man and the Sea from high school!)

A series of research studies are showing a surprising benefit: reading can actually help you live longer!

Brain Rules for Ageing Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp

Scribe Publications

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Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules for Aging Well says, "One twelve-year study showed that if seniors read at least 3.5 hours a day, they were 17 percent less likely to die by a certain age than controls who didn’t read. Read more than that and you increase the number to 23 percent. The reading has to be of books, long form. While reading mostly newspaper articles did something positive, the effects were smaller."

So do like Marie Kondo, pull those books off your bookshelf, and wake them up!!

[Book Review] DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson

Nathan Cashion January 29, 2019

I read the book because I've never been a strong salesperson. And now I know why - I won't lie to a customer, no matter how small or insignificant the lie to get an extra few bucks.

Speaking up for corporate hiring

Nathan Cashion January 21, 2019

The state of South Dakota has a peculiar law regarding chiropractic in that chiropractors are prohibited from being employed by corporations. In other words, a chiropractor can only work for himself or another chiropractor. They cannot work as an employee of a hospital, multidisciplinary clinic, or in an on-site clinic. After difficulty posting to the SDCA list-serve (since resolved), I wanted to publish this here as an alternate means of sharing my opinion.

A curious video about chiropractic.

Nathan Cashion January 2, 2018

This short video has been posted multiple times by chiropractic students and doctors I follow on social media. They've lauded it as an awesome, simple explanation of chiropractic. I think it's pointless and misleading.

Features vs Benefits

Nathan Cashion February 26, 2017

I recently listened to The Health Fit Biz podcast Episode 20 in which they discuss the importance of emphasising benefits over features when selling your services or product.

It helped me realize why I have trouble with the whole sales thing: I do care about features over benefits.

Science Literacy Revisited

Nathan Cashion February 18, 2017

Today, my brother posted a video of the (possibly) overrated Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. In a press conference he is asked to explain the potential benefits of quantum computing.

Trudeau explained the differences in a very accurate and succinct manner, something we can be quite sure would have turned out differently if the same situation repeated itself further south.