Culture
Democracy is a practice: how (and why) to do it.
No matter how outraged you feel, or how erudite your arguments against Social Security cuts, NIH cuts, Veteran’s care cuts, National Parks pillaging, yanking legal immigrants off the…
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Culture
Efficiency: a dangerous game
By design it benefits only a few. Oh my goodness have I loved efficiency. I drank the Koolaid early, and developed my own flavors of fast-to-faster to boot.…
Creativity
Early Earnings, Archetypes, and Your Personal Way to Wealth
(with an obsessive case study in American Politics) The archetypes1 represented in your earliest “receptive” associations are a powerful way to understand and value yourself as you are…
Culture
Going Dark, in the Morning, Joe
Note: This post was originally published in 2018 as I watched a decline in the quality of political news on TV. I suggested that a show I loved…
Mommess
The truth shall…
I feel like this is more important than ever in the world of internet cattle-shoots and brilliant algorithms designed to tweak our emotions and push us to react.…
Culture
Voting to pay taxes in ashes?
I’m calling out those who wield destructive energy, calling to “burn down” the government. (If talking money is the only way to get your attention- so be it.)…
Creativity
Branding is dead.
Never underestimate the power of a message said many different ways. You can more effectively move people if you decentralize the messaging and tap human passions instead of…
Culture
Breaking the natural and mythic laws of life: a primer
and a powerful path forward for good grownups Yesterday, January 6, 2021, American law was flouted when people broke into the Capital building, committed violence and halted…
Culture
Death Panels: brought to you by the GOP
Doesn’t a stranger deciding you can’t get what you need to live amount to a death panel? I’ve heard it said the fears you obsess about are the…
Culture
Will the Real America Please Stand Up? Birther-in-Chief is Thieving Again
Answering the questions: What is a “birth story” and why is it significant? Who gets to tell that tale (and why does it matter who tells it)? Why…
Mommess
“Yes… but” and the road to hell
Why all of a sudden TRump supporters are in disbelief that he could say something brazenly cruel and irreverent? Isn’t that why they voted for him? Thing is,…
Creativity
Vision 2022
Ever notice how every time a horrible or seemingly unexpected thing occurs, someone finds some sci-fi book* or episode of The Simpsons** that “predicted” it? This morning I…