Another step to a self-service future
Automation, artificial intelligence and robots are in the news a lot because they represent the awesome—in the real sense of the word—impact these technologies are already having on the way we live and...
View ArticleDo you care who you disrespect?
Everyone is disrespectful. Some more than others. Most are unintentionally disrespectful, some intentionally. These last are usually powerful people whose disrespect is tolerated or perversely, even...
View ArticleThe investment stock metaphor for your integrity
Perhaps an investment stock is a great metaphor for your integrity—one day up, the next day down and over time trending in one direction, and then another. People buy the stocks consistently trending...
View ArticleDo you give confronting feedback?
Recently my girlfriend gave me feedback on my writing, and it didn’t go well. Just about everything that we knew about what to do, or not do when giving feedback went wrong, and I felt personally...
View ArticleHow a calculator can help you solve for stress and low productivity
How often do you apologize for being pre-occupied, reacting inappropriately, or being unnecessarily harsh with someone? How often do you notice yourself stressing? Would you prefer to be more peaceful...
View ArticlePreparing for battle
About four minutes into Gladiator—my favorite Russel Crowe movie—the Roman General, Maximus Decimus Meridius (Crowe), introduces a ritual he would repeat several times in the film: just before battle...
View ArticleForgiveness lessons from a dog
The other day I was getting ready to take my dog Jazzy for a walk. Now, this isn’t a daily routine although I know that it’s best for a dog to have one. It’s just that I don’t have a lot of open spaces...
View ArticleThe one thing to manage when the going gets tough
Throughout history, people have overcome incredible hardship and prevailed against overwhelming odds. Churchill, Gandhi, Luther King, Mandela, and Malala come easily to mind. It’s easy to attribute...
View ArticleThe true stories we tell that aren’t
Catchy chapter title or mini-book title. For your ambition to be of any use, you must remember it. Colonize your future Explore relationship to claiming your future or living from your future le....
View ArticleCrucifixion or no crucifixion?
In a scene from Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian”, a Roman soldier is sorting out the prisoners by asking “crucifixion?” apparently relying on the integrity of each prisoner to declare his own...
View ArticleRecognising your addictions
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View ArticleDeath Sentencing: the expedient non-solution
(First published in the Trinidad Express on 25 jan 2012) The current debate about the resumption of hangings in this country is a distraction that we can ill afford, simply because it diverts us from...
View ArticleThe Most Broken Commandment
What do you think it is? Well, God damn it, it’s the third commandment, and if you follow my uncommon and unoriginal interpretation you’ll understand not only why it’s hands down the most broken...
View ArticleWTF power in US Women’s Final
The 2021 US Open women’s finals between Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez is a great example of the power of the stories we tell ourselves. Both players repeatedly said that they didn’t expect to keep...
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