Fluff kills!
“You will listen to your corporals. Their instructions will give you a better chance to survive.” I reckon the other rookies scoffed at those words, like I did. I was fresh out of university, and…
THE DEATH OF CONNECTION: He Posted His Divorce. You Scrolled. No One Listens.
Kris Kristofferson released that song To Beat the Devil. It boils down to not believing that nobody is listening. That stuck with me. We do still listen. But not the way we used to. There…
THE WAR ON THE SELF: Learning to Speak to Yourself Like Someone Worth Saving
Carlson was in his early 60s when he passed away, surrounded by filth. I saw a few photographs of his lodgings shortly before he passed away. The general consensus was that this man just didn’t…
THE HUNGER FOR MEANING: Scrolling while your soul starves, and yearning to escape.
THE HUNGER FOR MEANING Scrolling while your soul starves. It’s important to me to remember that people also experienced existential crises in the 80s. One of my schoolmates committed suicide. He stared out of the…
You won’t change the world
You won’t change the world. You light a fuse in blue-collar Joe who’s had enough. He burns down what you couldn’t torch. You guard the embers. You wait for the next spark.
The Language of Getting Scammed, Naming the Wreckage, and Leaving It Behind
I needed to get scammed a little, at least once in my life. It didn’t lead to financial ruin, or personality death and public evisceration. Crawling back from that scam transformed into a brutal course.…
THE LIE OF SUCCESS: You Were Not Promoted. You Were Repositioned
Promotions that feel like punishments. “Congratulations. You now get to drown with a better title.” Glen emerged from his military career as a Major. Nice dude. He was surprisingly “unmilitary” in bearing. We reminisced about…
A note to a failing manager. What silence taught me.
Hi David, Today is 22 July, 2002. I want to say something simple. I don’t think you did a good job today. Not as a manager, and also not as someone who wants to grow…
Moving Beyond Defensive Words: Catching those pesky “auditors” off-guard.
https://youtube.com/shorts/eVC2P6VWuCs?si=Nq8p7x5YL8-eV1J1 By the way, Sergeant Baker did quite well! Go check out his responses. Others fail terribly when confronted with a camera.
Talking back to Sunday anxiety: No, the ceiling ain’t collapsing
Yeah, I experience Sunday anxiety because it drills into my mind, saying, “You need to do something now. Why are you resting?” Somewhere, the term linear dread surfaced. It’s an insidious message calling me to…