Old
It's official. I am old. 29. That's hardly in my 20's anymore. I am almost 30. I don't know why that is such a big deal, but it is. There's something infinitely more interesting about being in your 20s. So, I had better make the most of this, my final interesting year.

I had a nice birthday complete with a fun joint birthday party which included packing about 40 people into our little 800 square-foot apartment. Always a good time.

The question was recently raised: Do books make you smarter? (ie can you buy smart)
I am going to go with yes. I'm taking a class after work on Mondays in leadership and I have to read two books for the class: Good to Great and The Tipping Point. I have already read The Tipping Point, but that's beside the point. I am finding that reading books for an assignment and sitting in class and thinking about things in a way that is different from how I think at work is making me sharper. And to further that, every book I read that makes me thing about something different and causes me to learn something new makes me smarter. Sure we have innate intelligence, but it has to be used if we don't want to lose it. You have to sharpen your mind by exercising it in different ways and you can probably expand your innate capacity if you work at it hard enough.

I've sat in some meetings with older people lately and I have noticed that they aren't as quick as some of my younger colleagues. I can even notice a difference in my mental speed when compared with people younger than me. I am slowing down ever so slightly (note above wherein I am old). I think the rest of my life will be a battle to keep my brain quick. Let the fight begin!