Trust has many stages of development. At birth, its new and pure. Easy to feel or touch and believe in but small. As a toddler, it grows bigger and stronger, becoming more stable or grounded with every step, yet it’s still not mature. But in its teenage years, it starts to flounder with depth. Still easy to come […]
Archive | Riffs & Ideas
According to wiki, “In jazz and R&B, riffs are often used as the starting point for longer compositions”. In our case, we’d like to think of them as the starting point for random stories. This could be the random section where even whining is allowed. Heck, it could eventually turn into a song.
#GoodEnergyMatters
Good energy matters, in order to make magic. And isn’t that the goal in life? Companies are constantly striving to make magic with their products and services. Innovating and creating newer, shinier, more compelling objects or offerings. So what happens when energy goes from light to dark? That’s where we look to our cultural heroes, like […]
Being Accountable to Society #legos #collectivesociety
Sometimes when I think of the many ways we can teach our children to be better humans, I wonder how translatable it is to adults and society at large. And then I think that maybe telling a story through the eyes of a child could help create empathy for adults. Maybe? I have this (I […]
How Bots Botched Humanity #technorevolution
Imagine a future state where we are using bots more than people. Where, as Stephen Hawking predicted, we pay people NOT to work. How will people interact with one another – either at work if it still exists for them, or in society? Now think about today. With an ever growing desire to lower margins […]
Humanitarian or Corporate Dweller?
The other evening I was asking a friend why she stopped practicing medicine. She was a family doctor working in a community clinic. She explained that the health insurance requirements became ridiculously overwhelming. She only had 15 minutes to see a patient and spent at least that much time filling in paperwork to collect insurance […]
Developing Yourself
At some point when we hit adulthood or career-hood, we stop thinking about developing ourselves. It could be from the feeling of having all of our emotional and social needs met – like being in a cozy relationship with someone, or loving our co-workers and what we do at work, or loving being a full-time parent. Whatever the reason, […]
The Truth about Project Management
Once upon a time, I was a project manager. At the time, I had to learn on the job because the whole Internet things was that new. We were all reading Idiot’s guides to Project Management or maybe taking the coveted PMP certification. It was one part organizational skills and one part technical skills. And […]
#InternationalWomensDay2016
I’ve often thought about rebranding the term feminism. Not because there is anything wrong with it. But because it’s become a bad word. Like “Socialism”. And that’s in part due to a select group of outspoken anti-activists or what I like to call “anti-vists” (with the mainstream media as a vehicle) to make that happen. […]
Cognitive Dissonance at Work
What if your job is to conquer 3rd world problems globally, yet you walk by the same homeless guy every day who’s camped outside your local (U.S.) office? It’s a clear reminder that you have your very own 3rd world problems at home, but the minute you enter the safe haven of a beautifully and expensively designed office […]
Is it just me, am I lucky, or am I average?
The other night, apres-ski, a group of friends sat next to a fire debating the future of our girls, when rape is still just as prevalent and there are girls as young as 12 and 13 who feel peer-pressure to perform sexual acts to boys at parties. As parents, during our debate, we reflected back on our own […]
