I listened to a fascinating interview yesterday of an East London trade-unionist named Paul Embery. Here’s the interview if you’re a sucker for punishment like me: Insert Video But you don’t have to watch the whole thing (or any of it, really) if you want the gist of it. You just need to know the title […]
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The first one was FEAR. The second, SHAME. This one’s easy to imagine too. It’s ENVY. We’re just taking the table, and spinnin’ it round. Now you’re the angry female office worker, who’s sick of seeing men in the office paid more, to do less work. Sick TO DEATH of reading the Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein stories. Cuz’ they remind […]
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The second of the most harmful and addictive substances on the planet is . . . .SHAME It often travels right behind FEAR.It reminds the footballer how he lost the biggest match of his life. Not just for himself, but for the whole team.It makes the actor pursue a career in film or radio. Just the […]
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My old dad started his career as a rocket scientist with the military. Literally. Then he migrated to lasers, and from there to chemical warfare agents. Sarin, Soman, Tabun . . . . And those are just the old ones. Nasty stuff, them thar warfare agents. Want an idea just HOW nasty? Lick the tip of your finger with […]
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If there’s one thing that suffers in a crisis, it’s the number, and the QUALITY, of the questions people ask themselves.The current crisis is no exception. And the problem is . . . .A crisis is the WORST time to stop asking questions.A question forces you to stop panicking and reacting.And to think. And reflect. Consider: How does […]
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Aaaaahhhh, there you are, Sherlock. Sitting comfortably? Excellent. Let us begin. Your customers will walk through the doors of your little shop this morning with at least one question running through their head. They may not know how to articulate it, but . . . They have a question. Guaranteed.If it’s a bad morning, they’ll have two or three, or […]
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The journo’s of the world are agag . . . . . Amazon’s Jeff Bezos increased his personal fortune by $13B (that’s B for billion) in a single day. Not too shabby for a day’s work. He’s now worth over $189B. That’s according to somebody’s estimate. They’re almostly definitely wrong. And it’s also admittedly a long way from […]
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What science says? About a life well lived? Short answer? SQUAT. Science doesn’t say a BLESSED THING about it. (Disclaimer: I haven’t surveyed the thousands and thousands of articles in Psychology Today and all the social science journals out there. It’s quite possible, even probable, that they do have something to say about this. But here’s the upshot:It actually don’t […]
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Well, whaddya know. Always wanted to see a tornado, but sorta figured it would come when I was . . . . somewhat further south. We’d been taking my brother-in-law and girlfriend on a tour of downtown Ottawa, and were heading home along the southern shore of the Ottawa River. When the tornado alert sounded on several cellphones […]
Continue readingRoman was nooot looking forward to getting off the plane. March 25th, 2013. Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow. It had been two glorious weeks of mostly sunshine and shirtsleeves in Cyprus. It was a trip he made at least once annually. Sometimes as much as three times in a 12-month period, depending on how business was going. Cyprus was a great place […]
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