My friend, Roberta Budvietas, wrote recently that being an optimist or a pessimist can create problems. I wrote in response I am an optimist, in spite of reality. It’s why I create new products- medical, environmental, and consumer- and want to help folks grow their businesses. Because if we don’t think things will be better, why would we try at all?
Continue reading We need rose-colored glasses
I’m all for safety. I’m all for logic. When someone purports a safety rule that flies in the face of logic and DATA- then I say “WTF?” That’s today’s (14 Dec 11) response.
Continue reading A WTF Moment. One that needs to be stopped- NOW!
I a presuming you woke up fine this morning. The world did not end. Well, that’s not the way it was predicted. Had you listened to all the histrionics, you would have expected the world to have ended yesterday. You see, yesterday was another red letter day in the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. You know, what is pejoratively called ObamaCare.
Continue reading Armageddon did NOT come!
We have been deluged recently with books and articles extolling the need to practice, practice, practice. Now, don’t get me wrong- I, too, understand the need for honing one’s craft. But, I am sick and tired of folks neglecting the need to recognize talent.
Continue reading America’s Got Talent? Yes, and it does beat practice…
I admit it. I grew up believing that the Supreme Court (US) was a most august body. (Didn’t you?) We expected the serving judges had reached their decisions in a bias-free, rational process. Of course, I have watched various presidents nominate folks to that court that I would never let walk my dog, let alone adjudicate a case that affected me dearly. So, as you can tell, my regard for this august body has dropped more than a few notches. (Consider the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 08-205 (2010) or Bush v. Gore case (531 U.S. 98 (2000) and its sister case, Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing Board 531 U.S. 70 (2000)).
Continue reading The Supreme…not so supreme
I’ve written before about educating your stakeholders using stories. I know it works- most others do, too. So, why are you not using them?
Continue reading Tell me a story… please
Disturbing research has been published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. And, it’s not clear to me if this is just true for British youth or not. It seems that those British children with higher IQ’s were more likely to be drug users (amphetamines, marijuana, cocaine, among them.)
Continue reading And the wind, it cries Mary…
I have never been diagnosed with ADD. To be honest, that’s probably because I am old enough that it was not something normally examined back then. (And, it probably would not have been part of any exam anyway, given the familial background in which I was raised.) But, I do have the tics, mannerisms, and the coiled energy that many ADD folks exude. And, my children have similar makeup.
Continue reading Maestro- can you handle this?
I don’t normally post twice in a day. But, having read a few comments and speaking to you- my readers- I feel that I have failed to make the proper points.
Continue reading A clarification- Children and Their Parents
When my daughter was a little girl, she loved to dress up. (OK, I think she still does, but that is a whole ‘nother story.) And, being the techie I was (am?), I ran across things that many others never saw (or maybe they did and decided that they were bizarre, or didn’t understand them). One such item was a T-shirt I gave my daughter, that she loved dearly.
Continue reading Children and their parents