Category Archives: Daily Posts

They aren’t fun. But, they do begin the process of getting in sync. Of understanding how the other person is thinking. Of understanding their goals. They need to be conducted constructively. But when done so can create weeks if not months of progress in one hour. The worst action to take is to avoid confrontation.…More

Its comfortable but leads to nothing interesting. Use small talk to build initial rapport. But don’t let it last longer than a minute or two. Get to difficult questions. Share your story. Ask about their story. You’ll come away with a deeper connection. A new relationship. Next time you find yourself saying “That weather huh?”,…More

Our lives would lose much of their meaning. Much of our time is spent learning things that someone else already knows. All that time would need to be spent in a new way. Ideally we’d all start to work only on creating new knowledge. But would there be enough different ways to create new knowledge?…More

Some of you may know it as Thanksgiving. Its actually a celebration of the Europeans takeover of the American continent from the Native American population. Now you may be thinking that I mean this to condemn Thanksgiving as a celebration. That we should focus instead of the plight of the Native American population. I think…More

Write down your current daily routine. Identify how many pieces of it don’t currently happen. Break those apart into small achievable habits. For example, you might want to wake up at 7am. But you currently wake up at 8am. Instead of changing the whole hour right away, start by going from 8 to 7:45. Keep…More

The daily pursuit of reactive priorities satisfying, even exhilarating. It feels great to deal with requests that people send you. But then, years later you realize you never had a chance to actually look back and see which direction you were driving in. A monthly review is a great way to combat that. A monthly,…More

Not because of heritage and not because of the split in the United States between right and left. I’m a human globalist. Being an American would mean supporting the United States without reservation. It would mean promoting the interest of the US over the interests of other countries. Being an American is nationalism. Nationalism led…More

As a kid I used to always want to find the one action that would give me all the results that I needed. If I didn’t get results in a few weeks or even in a few days I would abandon my quest whatever it was. This led to many started but never finished projects.…More

It ignores the deep seeded trends against the establishment that are the root cause for Hillary’s defeat. What if there was a third way to do it? To convince the electoral college to pick a third party candidate (Bloomberg). This article lays out an interesting case: “1. get the Republican Electoral College to block Donald…More

One of the results of this past election is that we’re forced to face how different people’s goals are in different parts of the United States. These are differences that have always been there. Now, they’re coming to the surface as it becomes easier to communicate. Over time, this difference will average out. It remains…More