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- Dynamics of My Emerging Blog Relationships
I have been observing how the development of blog relationships closely parallels other relational forms from business exchanges to friendships and mutual support. What begins in the offering of a personal statement finds either a receptive or non-receptive hearing in another’s interest. In the instance of this receptive hearing, my reader selects a dimension of [...]
- On Not Wanting To Know
The tragedy that becomes indifference begins with an unexamined difficulty of human capacity awash in information. There are too many details to understand. We take in what we can tolerate, mark it in its importance to us at the moment, and move on. There is just so much any one of us can absorb. While [...]
- Joy in Discovery of Received Wisdom
We cannot rediscover what we do not know. And this is the paradox in learning from “received wisdom”. Its reception is often within fields of knowledge foreign to us. The wisdom may be common enough to practitioners in the field, but to others? It is as if it never existed. Surprise or mentorship may bring [...]
- A Very Human Response
The poignancy and resilience of the human experience, especially as we undergo difficulty and hard times, is not only a “human asset”. It is our blessing. A reader shares this response to the blog post a few weeks back. Ian- Just finished rereading your post on “Adrenaline Withdrawal” and feel like it was addressed directly [...]
- The Irrationality of Sacrifice In Satisficing
One of the greatest recognitions about organizational decision-making is Nobel Laureate, Herbert Simon‘s notion of “satisficing”. Satisficing is the maximizing of multiple divergent inputs toward a goal based on a weighting of divergent parts. While the end product is rarely ideal from the perspective of any discrete participant’s perspective, its measure of utility is in [...]
- The Present Necessity for Kindness
When despair, fear, exhaustion and external answers beyond the encouragement to “keep on keeping on” are all: when the terror of occupational “redundancy” strips one’s sense of personal contribution, of meaning to others- what is left? The harsh formula of winner-loser is clear: this is no tv game show proclaiming, you are the weakest link: [...]
- On Purposive Reading
Getting a foothold in the universe of blogging, I have discovered that the antithesis of “composing” one’s life, is probably the “composting” of meaning — which occurs through random accumulation, however initially purposive the intellectual pursuit. Several concrete examples winked at me as bell weathers of this concept. The first was Slate’s summary of news [...]
