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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • The Game of Fatherhood

    What advice would you give to your teenage self? If I could go back and give my teenage self advice I would tell him to continue writing down any ideas, thoughts, poems, songs, jingles, titles, and stories you have throughout your entire life so you know what you were doing, what you were like at…

  • Building Ego

    People push us to build our ego as we push ourselves to build cities and to dominate nature with construction or deconstruction. When a person tries to dominate nature with construction they take from it, add material or take it away, then make it whole again in another form. That is the essence of ego,…

  • Playing Both Offense and Defense

    I love to watch college football but I never got to play at that level because I wasn’t good enough. I wasn’t big or strong enough. In high school I was good enough to play both offense and defense along with special teams but I was only playing both ways because I lived in a…

  • In The Interest of Shoes

    Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you. I have favorites for a lot of things. Favorite girl. Favorite friend. Favorite musician. Favorite song. Favorite post. Favorite place. Out of all my favorites in life it is most difficult to pinpoint my favorite pair of shoes because I’ve gone through…

  • TWEETY AI

    AI is rich.  AI is rich at every angle.  AI is moving into dangerous territory.  AI will watch us make just enough advancements to test our strength.   AI will distract us as we become more desperate for raw materials intended to build boundaries.  AI contradicts that the path to great wealth is forming natural resources…