America is an "I" country. I did this, I'm good at that. Me, me, ME! Everyone wants to talk about what they know, and oneself is the limit to what one can ever know, really. And how many of us REALLY know ourselves? Very few, I would say. So how helpful is this self-focus, anyway? …
Month: October 2021
Humble and Grateful
Last week while I was out of town on vacation, visiting my brother and his partner, I received a private message on LinkedIn from someone I had recently connected with. She was asking for my permission to quote something I wrote in THIS BLOG for an article she was writing. I am still amazed thinking …
Compartmentalization, or Why the Labor Economy is Broken
We are on the precipice of a whole new paradigm when it comes to who works where, how, and for how long. There may be many people who fear such upheaval and would rather just sit tight with the system we have because they had been able to hang on by the skin of their …
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New Earth
Right now, in the Canary Island known as La Palma, a volcano is actively erupting. More than 6000 people have been evacuated from the affected area and lava has been flowing for days out of fissures running down the southeast side of the island, destroying everything in its gravity-led path toward the Atlantic Ocean. Having …