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Category Archives: General Musings
Walk around naked at home? Do you swear? Turns out, you’re probably pretty smart!
Intelligent people are more likely to swear and walk around naked at home, according to a new study. Quizzing about 1,000 people on 400 typical behaviors, researchers at the University of Rochester found that extroverts are prone to telling dirty … Continue reading
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:-) What? Are you stupid or something?
Smiling emoticons in work related e-mails portray low competence, according to a new study. This was simply too good not to put up on my blog immediately. The paper, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science on July 31st, also suggested such … Continue reading
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Circles of Competence
In the professions of counseling and executive mentoring we often speak of our scope of competence. What that means is this: we know what we can do and work to expand that scope, but we also understand what we cannot … Continue reading
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UNCOVERED! Russian Interference in Presidential Writing!
Donald Trump was seen recently using a yellow No. 2 pencil aboard Air Force One. Since I happen to know the link between yellow pencils and the Russian Empire, I am calling for yet another special prosecutor to investigate this … Continue reading
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Camille Paglia Speaks
The Weekly Standard is out this week with an interview with Camille Paglia, easily one of the most articulate writers from the Left on the scene today. She has been around for quite a while and I have enjoyed her … Continue reading
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The Great Estrangement
In my most recent post, I mentioned how “words matter.” I must amend that and add that tone matters. How we say what we say matters as much, or perhaps more as the words that are spoken or written. I … Continue reading
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Words Matter, Leadership and Tact Matter, Resistance is NOT Leadership
It is important to keep a record of how words can matter. Very few columnists have the balls, frankly, but Ann Coulter does. In this piece, which I am not claiming as my own (not by any means) and which … Continue reading
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Quick Fix for Jet Lag?
As Cindy and I prepare for the grand European Tour in July (really just England and Scotland, but “grand tour” sounds better), we are wondering how to minimize jet lag now that we’re in our sixties and late fifties. I … Continue reading
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The Campus Mob Came for Me—and You, Professor, Could Be Next
I recall, now with an odd sense of both nostalgia and déjà vu, the radicals of the 1960’s and how they would do sit-ins and worse, burn down whole buildings. Largely because of the Vietnam War, where young men … Continue reading
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Kim Jong Un Must Be Wondering: “What if I Win?”
If I learned anything at Microsoft, and I learned a lot, it was this: For every good policy argument, there was typically a counter-argument that was at least worth acknowledging. In other words, for every great idea someone puts forth, … Continue reading
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