The Benefit of Being a Nobody

I won’t be punished if I publish an article that cuts against the narrative.I won’t get canceled if I say something offensive.I won’t experience any public backlash if I take a side and defend it. So I can do all of those things. However,...

The Gift of Christmas

If you identify as a Christian, Easter is supposed to be the Super Bowl of holidays. But it’s not. At least not for most. Christmas is the Super Bowl. Christmas is the holiday when we can unabashedly intersect all of the Christian right-isms††  —...

Get Good at Being Miserable

If you’ve trained for an iron man distance triathlon, you know how to be miserable.If you’ve written a book, you know how to be miserable.If you’ve bootstrapped your own business, you know how to be miserable. Embracing the misery is not the same as...

Competition

We’re often fooled into thinking that our competition is the other person, other team, or other philosophy. We’re wrong. That’s The World hocking its wares. The competition is always the one staring back at you in the mirror. Once you and I realize...

Academic Study Versus Experience

It’s one thing to study business. It’s another to run your own.It’s one thing to study war. It’s another to have served.It’s one thing to study marathon training. It’s another to have run one. Academic study is critical to move the...

The Problem Isn’t the Narrative(s)

Once Rupert Murdoch established his “news” and media empire in the US, he uncovered a new business model.  Once technology delivered a broadcast studio into every citizen’s pocket, it doomed the objectivity model.  The intersection of...

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