Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, tens of thousands of years ago, humans were separated into tribes. Then a few millennia ago, they clumped together into villages, towns, cities and states. A few centuries before now, large countries developed, and the Americas became conjoined to Europe and Asia. Humanity became one body. There was a renaissance […]

The coronavirus problem is an opportunity — to arrest human havoc. If there ever was a problem we should look at as an opportunity, it is the coronavirus pandemic. It has somewhat slowed the depredations of burning fossil fuels, rampant construction and unbridled mass travel. We would be foolish to let everything go back to the way it

We humans need to adopt them way before we get to Asimov’s robots. We are driving fast in the car of technology. The road is smooth, and our foot is heavy on the accelerator. We are not braking, and we have no seat belts on. What do we see up ahead? Boulders are hurtling down

Wabi-Sabi for the human condition. If our opinion of our fellow man or woman is even half factual, it’s a miracle anything gets done at all. ‘So-and-so is dumb as a post, that one selfish as a leech, this one rude as hell and we all know who’s the lazy sloth. No wonder we are

Respect can give us so much. The moment someone sits at the head of a conference table, we have a power dynamic that is often more regressive than progressive. The most common meetings are for status updates, problem-solving and decision-making. Others are for generating ideas, team building and new product or service presentations. Let’s consider