Searching for the right tree to cut down (where to put our focus in a forest of worldly options) may not be as important as taking considerable time to sharpen our axes beforehand. Unfortunately, too many of us are focused on the complexity of the forest of trees we find Read more…
There’s always been news. There’s always been a continuum of what’s considered news by audiences and what’s not. But what’s been lacking has been information, wisdom, and knowledge. The continuum of what’s news has been debated for years by those delivering the content, and is now heating up with accusations of Read more…
I’ve got half a mind to… …do something that no one thinks is possible because it hasn’t been done before. …educate people who want to listen rather than spending time chasing the attention of the masses. …take a risk and do work that matters. …engage with conflict rather than seeking Read more…
Wisdom is a skill. In our modern era, that values speed over taking time, and that values the new over the old, wisdom is viewed, not as a skill, but as something unattainable. This intellectual and cultural state of affairs has not always been the case. As a matter of Read more…
Social tools allow us to connect with other people now more than ever before through three important ways: Education. Entertainment. Edification. Finding the people who believe in your message, who desire to be educated, or who want to be entertained, is easier now more than ever. Of course, it’s easier Read more…
Will this be on the test? This is the question that we struggle with every new semester. It reveals what and where the focus of students has been trained into them over the last 12 years of primary schooling. Will this impact my grade? This is the question that reveals Read more…
When people talked with each other across the fences in the backyard, they knew (with some certainty, though certainly not ontological certainty) which of their neighbors were angry and which were pleasant. The bowling league, the local bar, the country club, and even the grocery store served as locations that Read more…
If you don’t really know where you’re going, then it doesn’t matter which direction you go. Not a bad point. Here’s another one: Wherever you put your focus, that is where you will reap your greatest rewards. Many people in a conflict focus on the conflict itself (the product) rather Read more…
Being “on the bubble” is about how much value you add to the situation, the resolution, or the conflict before the bubble bursts, all over you and all over the other party. Being “on the bubble” is about being in a place where you are neither advancing nor retreating, merely Read more…
The moral arc of the universe bends towards justice. And justice, supposedly, is blind. Or so they say. But people, with their prejudices, conflicts, disagreements, and dissensions, have trouble arcing towards blindness. The issue with justice is not the fact of justice, that which is applied through the creation of Read more…