The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff

“I have also a flower,” declared the little prince as he tried to describe his planet to a geographer.
“We do not record flowers,” said the geographer.
“Why is that? The flower is the most beautiful thing on my planet!”
“We do not record them,” said the geographer, “because they are ephemeral.”

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Pitch a Conversation

“I went to a presentation once and a conversation broke out!”
— With apologies to Professional Hockey

Something goes haywire in the mind when you’re invited to “Pitch…” The normal intelligence which drives your business behavior short circuits and you fall back to the basic question: “What am I

Tearing Ourselves Apart

Disintegrate

Definition: 1. To separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; to break up, deteriorate; 2. To decay; 3. To reduce to particles, fragments or parts; break up or destroy the cohesion of.

We have reached a critical point in our cultural evolution where it is standard

Echo Chamber

(Disconnect)

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire — then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn

Wait a Bit

“How many things would you not have said, had you simply waited a bit…?”
—J. R. StJohn

Evidence for the existence of our somewhat less-than-completely-rational tendencies predominate in our daily lives — often in the form of our habit of reacting to provocation rather than to pause,