Author Archives: Nick Enlowe

Here I am, 35% through a comprehensive edit of someone else’s book. I have a sixty hour training course for Denodo I have to complete by Wednesday (Denodo is a data analytics “staging” program), work has been super busy lately, we’re ramping up to sell our house, I may very well be getting the IPContinue reading “The Way Things Were Supposed To Be”

Given the story from my previous post, I guess it’s clear that stopping the medication was the right choice. It’s just … the timing really sucked for comparison purposes, and getting back on ADHD meds is not an easy thing to do. But Ritalin wasn’t the answer for me. Effortless academic excellence was nice, butContinue reading “ADHD and Writing: Stopping the Meds – Did I Make the Right Choice?”

Once I was on the drug, my grades actually improved. I got nothing but straight As and found myself in the “accelerated reading program”. I learned how to type without looking at the keyboard and could do it faster than all the other children. Second through fourth grade made me feel like the sky wasContinue reading “ADHD?: Life on Ritalin”

I am surrounded by cards. Twelve complete sets of the tradeable card game I’m working on. This is part of the fun of working on a TCG, but it also creates quite a mess! The cardlist is finalized and we’re in the process of tweaking and fine-tuning while waiting on our artists to provide usContinue reading “The Backburner”

ADHD is simple, yet complicated. The diagnosis is so simple to give, but it’s created complexities in our society. There’s people out there so convinced they have ADHD, they’ve made it their mission to “spread awareness”. The label has become such a part of their identity–such a strawman to lay their blame upon–that they getContinue reading “ADHD?: The Story of the Strange Room”

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: The hottest thing to get your kids diagnosed with in the eighties. My mom was always a trend follower who (even to this day) stays read up on the paper and keeps her homepage set to “Yahoo! News”, no matter how radical or fearmongering the headlines might be. “How else wouldContinue reading “No Book Yet. Could ADHD be to Blame?”

What is a magus? In post-Biblical modern times, a magus is a philosopher, someone who has magician-like abilities due to their wisdom. But we’ve already established that a magus has a false, inverted sense of wisdom. So, if you guessed they generally use their form of magic for ill purposes, you’d be right. Hermetic Qabalah/ThelemicContinue reading “The Art of the Magus and the Allegory of the Cave”

I mentioned earlier that I was called to head up a team that is designing and playtesting a trading card game. It’s been in development for a few years, and I was there as a part of that process, almost from the start. But apparently when I stepped away from developing and testing the gameContinue reading “The Tricky Business of Designing a Trading Card Game”

Could there actually be something to the philosophy of the caduceus? Oh, I have no doubt there is. When one opens themselves to malevolent forces, they get used. Such practices can, and probably will, bring fame and/or fortune, but not happiness. Most celebrities feel taken advantage of and abused by the end of their careersContinue reading “There Are No Shortcuts to Wisdom”

Almost any time you see a pine cone depicted in ancient art, it’s there to represent the third eye. That may sound a little silly, but the pine cone being associated with third eye philosophy is common throughout the entire world. Here, we see it on a building at the top of a cleverly disguisedContinue reading “Unraveling the Many Secrets of the Rod of Caduceus: The Mystery of Baphomet … and Pine Cones???”