Man, I like helping people.
“Help” is supposedly a weak word; it’s a no-no for resumes. One should never say “Helped with account…” One should always say “co-administered account…” or “Supported account…” or s… Read more...
How to Do Good When Faced with Conflict
We make our biggest impact, not by our grandest lifetime achievements, but by the little things we do every day.
There is opportunity everywhere and within every moment for you to do good in the world and to feel good about doing it. And here’s a little secret: the impact an… Read more...
Waimea Bay
There are those moments that are just perfect, the ones you’re always looking for that need no analysis, where all involved feel the same thing at the same time.
Five of us, having been so long apart in geography and time, now treading water in crystal clear Waimea Bay, only… Read more...
The Tug of a Child
We are snorkeling off the coast of Hawaii (yeah, life is good), searching out coral, the magnets of the sea for shimmering fishees.
Every once in a while I feel a tug on my flipper and look back to see my daughter, pulling herself up my leg and torso. She holds a fistful of my sui… Read more...
The Job People Want When They’re Tired of Their Own Job
You’d laugh.
So many people revert to the same fantasy when they’re bummed at work. They say something to the effect of… “I don’t know, maybe I’ll just go away to some tropical island somewhere and become a scuba instructor…”
I’… Read more...
Our Algorithms Are Failing Us
Our echo chambers are only getting louder.
I appreciate recommendation engines and suggested posts as much as anyone but they only feed me more of the same. The machines, they claim to know me, to have me pegged by what I do and say online or in a store or to a speaker sitting on … Read more...
The Fall of the Liberals
It was a mass extinction. Self-inflicted. Or you might call it mutual homicide by neglect.
From the sky looking down, the pattern of the bodies scattered across each other almost looks beautiful, a mutated end goal, a patchwork quilt of every color imaginable, all types of bodies,… Read more...
“I’ve Always Thought About Doing That”
“I’ve always thought about doing that.”
I hear this from clients a lot and my response is always the same: Go do that!
This is not necessarily about your calling. It doesn’t matter if this thing becomes your career or not. What matters is that you scratch th… Read more...
Love for You
Love is a lifeboat.
Love is a bunch of balloons taking you up up up.
Love is a formidable shield and the arrows that pierce it.
Love is a mother’s thoughts wrapped around you like a blanket, wherever you are.
Love is a perfect beach day when you almost can’t tell the diff… Read more...
With Dizzying Thoughts – Our Place In the Flock
Companies are founded on epiphanies.
It’s usually a single idea from one person or a small group of people. This idea is raised up, cleaned off, and put in a glass box.
Then that same group of people focuses on convincing: convincing each other, convincing engineers, convinci… Read more...