James Hanson
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Farewell for now, Ventura
Today is the final day of the family’s extended stay in Ventura. I have a tire-pressure problem to address, and a trip to Best Buy to make, but other than that, the exit should not be a hassle. It’s been good to be in another place, a place that’s not our usual set of restaurants… Continue reading
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A Trip to Los Angeles
This past weekend, some of the family and I drove down from Ventura to Los Angeles. Drive Time: Gaffigan, David Perell, and Theme Time Radio Hour On the drive down to LA, we listened to Jim Gaffigan’s new album, The Skinny, and on the way home we listened to the Questions episode of Bob Dylan’s… Continue reading
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Austin Kleon on Books as Old Friends and Reading the Writer Who Unlocks Something in You
Austin Kleon wrote something about treating well-loved writers as old friends: While I am a great proponent of reading more than one book at a time and letting books talk to each other, I also believe that when you find a writer who unlocks something in you, you should spend as much time with them as you… Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s Inception & Tenet
In June, I went to see Inception in the theater with two of my kids. We had seen it before, and we had even seen it in the theater before. But for me, it’s a film that’s worth seeing on the big screen, and this viewing in June didn’t disappoint or disprove its big-screen worthiness.… Continue reading
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Become What You Are: Self-Development Lingo in Josef Pieper
Here is a passage from the philosopher Josef Pieper. When I first read it, I thought: this kind of talk could be found in American self-help or hippy New Age books or Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unfolding being. Situated between different states of realization. We are not yet what we already are. Here’s Pieper: For example,… Continue reading
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June 2025 CLE about the Trial de Novo under A.R.S. § 12-910
At the end of June 2025, I was on a panel at the Arizona State Bar Convention for a CLE about the effects of A.R.S. § 12-910 on appeals from administrative cases at the Registrar of Contractors. Specifically, we were talking about the trial de novo provision. Who was the “we” on the panel? Chance Peterson… Continue reading
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Understanding Trial De Novo in Arizona Law with Duncan v. Mack
Recently, I wrote about the Clout Construction memorandum decision, which is about the trial de novo available under A.R.S. § 12-910. That decision mentioned a case, Duncan v. Mack, in connection with the proposition that a trial de novo “should be tried in all manners as though the superior court were the court of original… Continue reading
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Investigate Your Ideas
About a month ago, I was waiting for my son’s flight at Sky Harbor Airport, and I was spending that time reading on Readwise a PDF that I don’t remember having collected but that I nevertheless enjoyed. The PDF is a chapter titled “Learning to Work” by Virginia Valian from an anthology called Working it… Continue reading
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Spanish Books Photographed for an Experiment on WordPress
I’m playing with WordPress on my computer and on my iPhone. For that experiment, I’m posting a photo of some Spanish books I bought yesterday at Barnes and Noble: Continue reading
Subjects of Interest
A.R.S. § 12-910 (5) Arizona Administrative Code (1) Art of Manliness Podcast (1) Austin Kleon (1) Christopher Nolan (1) cotidian photo (3) Criterion Channel (1) David Whyte (1) Great Books (1) Josef Pieper (2) Los Angeles (1) movies (2) Office of Administrative Hearings (3) OptimalWork (1) personal growth (1) philosophy (1) Phoenix (1) reading (1) Registrar of Contractors (10) restaurant (3) Roam Research (1) Spanish (1) spoken Latin (2) Steve Chandler (1) theology (1) travel (4) trial de novo (5) Ventura (2) writing on the Internet (1) Zettelkasten (1)
