The writer, business consultant, and philanthropist.
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Essays and letters I’ve written
At an early age I learned that one can enjoy a nice quiet and peaceful life by being quiet and peaceful. “Don’t rock the boat.” “Don’t stand out.” “Ignorance is bliss.” There’s a lot of comfort in silence. There’s also a lot of privilege in it. Privilege is insidious. It’s silent. It is an absence Read More …
UPDATE – Scroll to bottom for some insight into my change of heart on the subject. I’ve been struggling with commenting on these difficult contemporary times – race relations and free speech. Not just in what to comment or how to say it, but in whether to say anything at all. Swirling around and through Read More …
Wasn’t Planning on That Update 2/5/18 After quarterly appeals to every page’s takedown notification, I noticed today that the pages have all been deleted. I had sent appeals regularly in the hopes of getting a response from someone. Today I went to post a share to my active page and I noticed a number of taken Read More …
A dream many employees have is of having some kind of self-destiny. The person might have some kind of simple task job, an oppressive environment, or a micro-managing boss. In some form they feel that their free-agency is missing. For 8-10 hours a day they have no control over their life. Winning the lottery is Read More …
“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” – from Nietzsche’s Human, all too Human, s.483, R.J. Hollingdale transl. “Conviction without experience makes for harshness.” Flannery O’Connor, Author “Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.” – Daniel Kahneman I was Read More …
They speak of such noble patriotism, such proud nationalists speaking of the strength of the Union. The power and majesty of our grand old United States of America. That she should remain free and un-beholden to the arrayed foreign powers which undoubtedly seek to corrupt and beguile our politicians, corporations and citizenry. Let me tell Read More …
Dissection The autopsy on year 2016 will probably be something for the history books. I think the retrospective is going to come from many places. From a social context; identifying highly emotional themes and the way they push the subdivisions of our society. From a technology context; where we break down what seems like a Read More …
When I gaze into the stars I think about the light I am seeing. That light was cast by those stars millions if not billions of years ago. They might not even exist anymore, yet the photons that strike my eyes were released and are mine to behold, and will not be seen by another Read More …
Republicans defund embassy security in the national budget and then complain the administration is somehow responsible for the people get killed when embassies are attacked. This is a problem I see from not just the right, or Republicans but rather people who seem to think that the services controlled by the government should somehow be Read More …
Friends, family and fellow citizens, I write you to testify to the importance of the free exchange of information in the national, and budding global society we enjoy. In the last year there have been innumerable threats to that freedom and I find that my contributions of money, time, words and acts are insufficient against Read More …