Jan 6A Better Place to WorkAs the holiday season wears off, there’s one issue that is front and center for a lot of managers and business owners. Employers want people back in the office. Employees don’t wanna go back. Employees have a lot of solid reasons to not want to return. Transmissible diseases, physical and…Work3 min readWork3 min read
Dec 23, 2022Which What and Why?With 2023 heading straight for us almost every human on the planet is thinking about the new year and what will come of it. First, the litany of fears: ecologic, economic, and egomaniac. Then, the mantra of solace: community, consequences, and carbohydrates. But then, the idea of change creeps in…New Year Resolution3 min readNew Year Resolution3 min read
Dec 9, 2022Success Is Not an OptionBetween 2018 and 2021, the number of podcasts on Apple went from 550 thousand to 1.96 million. Including other platforms, that number is somewhere over 4 million at this point. A lot of people started during the first lockdowns. And an awful lot of them stopped pretty quickly. Some managed…Podcast3 min readPodcast3 min read
Nov 25, 2022Every Business is DifferentA side effect of The Great Resignation (which was more about people shifting jobs than people quitting) was how people faced a radically different hiring environment. “Is People and Culture the same as Human Resources?” “What is a DevOps and how is it different than a Project Manager?” And that’s…Business3 min readBusiness3 min read
Nov 11, 2022Like Mice in a MazeTensions across the Urals increase, and North Korea penetrates the Northern Limit. And the Doomsday Clock ticks down as Cold War enemies remember old war wounds. And economies, local and global, whipsaw after the hiccup of COVID shutdowns. The first impulse, as immediate as a blink, is to say these…Resilience4 min readResilience4 min read
Oct 28, 2022The Kids Are Doin’ Fine, It’s the Adults I’m Worried AboutThings are bad and getting worse. We are already beyond the point where we can ever go back to the ‘way it was’. And we saw it all coming. Formerly frigid tundra are turning into lush fields due to the whipsawing weather shifts. The rivers and the lakes that you’re…Future5 min readFuture5 min read
Oct 18, 2022Work and Life and The WorkIt seems like you can’t turn on any form of media these days without running into someone with a feeling about the ‘workplace’. Some people are demanding we return to the old days with cubicles and dress codes and those god awful ‘engagement’ events. Some people are demanding that we…Work5 min readWork5 min read
Sep 29, 2022September ’22: Adapt TogetherAdaptation is one of the fundamentals of life. We adapt, minute by minute, to our immediate surroundings. We adapt, day by day, to our general environment. We adapt, year by year, to our culture, our nation, our species, and our technologies. With each layer of adaptation, we get closer to…Future3 min readFuture3 min read
Sep 20, 2022Simultaneous RealitiesThere’s a lot of talk about virtual reality (VR) and I’m hopeful that Meta’s foray into it falls flat on it’s face based on their track record with social media. Can you imagine the horrors they’d breed in a closed virtual reality? …Future4 min readFuture4 min read
Aug 29, 2022August ’22: Where Are We Going and Why Are We In A Handbasket?The last 40 years have been a rollercoaster of globalization, technological innovation, and socio-economic hypergrowth. As a result, the people who caused the problems we face are still around to face the consequences. This wasn’t the case in the past, where each generation passed away before the next one had…Future5 min readFuture5 min read
