What We’ve Got Here Is… – Failure To Communicate & Learning From Old Myths

A man wearing a square hat comes walking along a path between the two fields. Two farmers are each in their fields toiling away. Both men look up at the man, taking notice of his peculiar hat. Later in the day they meet up in the village and the following exchange takes place: – Did […]

No Insert Label On Our Streets! – Racism, Alt-Right & Synthwave

“Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization.” — David Brin I’m going to tell you what seems like 3 disjointed stories at first, but it’ll make sense in the end. The first one happened a month ago when a friend of mine wrote about a rally in Stockholm by NMR (a Swedish […]

(N)ex(t)pert – Why We Keep Searching For The Next Expert

“In long-term political strategic forecasting, it’s been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.” — Daniel Kahneman After predicting the election results in 49 of the 50 states correctly back in 2008, Nate Silver became the go to expert. A position that was cemented in 2012 when he correctly predicted the results in 50 […]

How Trump Won – By Using 2000 Year Old Principles

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Hindsight is always 20/20 and I honestly didn’t think that Trump would win. However, a blog post written last year by Scott Adams (yes, the guy behind the “Dilbert” cartoons) got me thinking that Trump […]

It’s Nokay – Another Set Of Answers

“Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.” — John C. Maxwell It wasn’t like flipping a switch, but pretty damn close. The game changers for me were two answers: “I can’t” and “No”. I was working at a company managing, among other things, their inventory. This was a pretty small […]

Let It Go – On Letting People Have Their Stories

“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.” — Abraham Maslow So, I have this thing. It’s a somewhat annoying habit of mine. For some reason I find myself compelled to tell people uncomfortable truths. Especially when they’re based on false beliefs. As I talk on the phone with an […]

Throw In The Towel – When You Know It’s Time To Quit

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde As I was sitting there listening to her complain about her clients, it was plain as day that it was time for her to move on to other things. This wasn’t anything new, we’d […]