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Category Archives: Thoughts
The Sublime Joy of the Subtle
I initiate the ritual by ordering my cappuccino. The barista pounds out old grounds, the grinder whirrs to life and professional hands expertly level and tamp the grounds. The espresso pump shoves hot water through the fresh coffee and the … Continue reading
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Leveraging the Asymmetry of Order
A riddle: What do the filibuster, the bus drivers of Morelia and hunger strikes have in common? While strolling the streets in downtown Chicago, I considered the incredible buildings that took decades upon decades to create. Even in the last decade, … Continue reading
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Slow Goals
Dead people are influencing our thinking. Not in a supernatural way, but in how they influenced the way their culture taught their children to think. Consider what words your parents taught you first – objects and colors or verbs? The … Continue reading
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Paying the Cost Today
If I say this, then she is just going to say this. If I don’t say it though… We all have this type of internal conversation — simulating future possible events and speculating on their outcome. It’s one of the … Continue reading
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Meta Conversations
“I don’t think I could ever love you, but I want to be friends that touch.” One of my friends was told this when she asked her German boyfriend to be brutally honest. Brutal honesty to an American means something … Continue reading
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When It’s Darkest
When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars Ralph Waldo Emerson I love this quote. Several times over my career, we’ve been blinded by the light. Things seemed perfect. There was nothing that could stop us. This expectation lulled us to … Continue reading
Standing On The Shoulders Of Those Who Came Before
As I was walking to catch the bus, it struck me just how much that surrounds us we take for granted. Things that seem so obvious too us they simply blend into the background. We get in our cars, drive … Continue reading
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State of Energy & Change
You’re taking a pleasantly hot afternoon stroll with a little time on your hands, and you come across a table with a couple of people offering you a free beverage if you’re willing to help them out with a small … Continue reading
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Where Chocolate Goes to Die
Perhaps no one is like my wife and me, but we have a place in our pantry where chocolate goes to die. Actually, for quite some time, we had a place where all snack food would go to die. We … Continue reading
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You Can’t Think Your Way Out
You’ve come down with a serious cold. You feel miserable. You start trying to figure out who or what gave you this cold: Was it not washing your hands after that bus ride? Was it that guy that coughed on … Continue reading
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