What happens when how I remember an event doesn’t match how you remember an event? This mismatch in memory—and framing of those mismatches—leads to people constructing palaces to specific memories in their minds. These palaces are filled with feelings, ideas, thoughts, and conclusions that may not be objectively accurate. And Read more…
We lose a little of ourselves when we outsource our memory to Google. But not in the obvious way that we think of. What we lose in the privacy (some would say inaccuracy) of memory is the ability to forget. And to be forgotten. The privacy of memory and the Read more…
Most people don’t see it. Confusing the primacy of what we can see, touch, taste, and feel, closes our human perceptions to the potential financial and monetary value of what we cannot measure and codify with our five senses. This is evident in the primacy of the use of relationship 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…
The leap from here to there has never been closer. Sure, leaping is naturally hard. That’s why people caution other people, before they embark on a path they can’t see, into a future they can’t understand, with outcomes that are unimaginable, to “look before you leap.” It’s been written before that, Read more…
The deep revelation of the revolution called the Internet, is that it continues to demonstrate that networks are the most valuable resource that an individual, a corporation, or a government possesses in order to leverage innovation, change, and advancement. Of course, during the height of the Industrial Revolution last century, Read more…
The government (and the corporations that consort with it through lobbying efforts) can’t provide every service, fulfill every need, and relieve every want for every individual. The government (and the corporations that consort with it through lobbying efforts) can be hampered from taking away rights and encouraging responsibility, from individuals. Read more…
You are probably going to read this post by clicking on a link from Facebook, if you read this at all. More likely than not, you won’t read this if you see it posted on LinkedIn (it seems too arduous to click on an article, thus the increase of click-bait Read more…
The rumblings have started through the podcast world, and the big players haven’t said (or written) anything about anything yet, but I’m sure there’s been all kinds of back end, off line chatter for months now. And, two days ago, Google announced that content creators of podcasts can get their shows Read more…
If you don’t measure it, it hasn’t happened. At least that’s the clarion call for many in the worlds of Big Data, analytics and the growing field of measuring content marketing. But for the blogging peacebuilder, just the mention of the term “analytics” can generate beads of cold sweat. The same Read more…