The set-up for the story is always the same. There’s coercion, envy, false accusations, an artificially whipped up mob, a person turned into a scapegoat and a trial without representation, on trumped up charges, geared toward a predetermined outcome. Then there’s an execution by a regime a downhill slide from Read more…
If you believe that building this project consists of a series of straight lines, then you are thinking too linearly. The 2nd best moment in the Wizard of OZ, occurs when Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion and Toto all return to the Wizard’s palace in Oz. They Read more…
If you haven’t seen the film Election, directed by Alexander Payne and starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, go get it on Netflix and stream in right now. The script, from the movie released in 1999, shows the results and feedback loop that power, strategy and the ruthless pursuit of Read more…
At a neurobiological level, the facts and triggers for emotions in the human mind are complicated and diaphanous. If human societies create functioning, artificial intelligence, the chance of human level emotions evolving within those machines, will be slim to none. Machines, even intelligent machines, can’t rise any higher than their Read more…
The signs of the post-American (some would say post-empire American) world, are all around us, from Trayvon Martin to the latest corporate hacking issues at Sony. The center is holding culturally and economically, in “flyover country,” where—outside of a very few areas in the economy—failure is still not tolerated, taking Read more…
From Detroit, Michigan to Gary, Indiana, urban decay is a fact as cities evolve from the physical industrial totems to 20th century progress into the semi-transparent, high technology incubators of the virtual 21st century. And, with 70% of the human population living in cities by 2050, the crimes, poverty, squatting Read more…
We don’t know if you’ve heard, but the singularity is coming. That moment in time when human beings unite with the technology that we have made and ascend gloriously to the stars… Unless, of course, some of us decide to not unite gloriously… Unless, of course, some of us decide Read more…
The human brain seeks order out of chaos. It can’t help itself. We create systems, cultures, organizations, traditions and stories to be able to make sense out of a world that seems inexplicable, where things seem to happen without reason or logic. This ingrained need to create order has led Read more…
I’ve always had trouble “fitting in” with organizations. I’ve taken Strengthsquest and MBTI and I know how I see the world. And, I’ve often been given insight (some would call it “feedback”) from others who have seen how I interact with the world. My approach to ideas and processes in Read more…
We here at HSCT are fans of the AMC show Breaking Bad. We are currently binging on the last few episodes of the series on Netflix… a service of which we are also big fans. One of the narrative elements of the show that coursed consistently through its five seasons was water: Read more…