Tag Archives: not business as usual

The Complexity Conspiracy: A Plea for Simplicity

Last weekend, I found myself at the customer service desk of our local hardware store, returning what should have been a simple kitchen tool: a mandolin slicer. For the uninitiated, a mandolin is traditionally a straightforward yet notoriously dangerous kitchen gadget designed to help you slice and dice everything from potatoes to your fingertips equally […]

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Correctness vs Innovation

I’ve been noticing a trend gaining more and more traction over at least the last decade. You’ve seen it, too, and we all use different words to describe a similar pattern.  Disaggreable. Divisive. Unrelenting. Off-putting. Even alienating.   No, I am NOT talking about politics. Instead, how we humans seem to view ourselves and the […]

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Sometimes the Best Connection is NO Connection at all

  I don’t know about you, but the entire world seems like one big dumpster fire burning entirely out of control these days. The news papers and programs, all social media, and most of our in-person conversations are filled with the shock and horror of what’s going on and why. I do not have ADHD, […]

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I Don’t Know, No Really

Last week, a reader called my opinion piece out. He said, “ You overlooked one thing that must be done in order to break free. Each individual must admit to themselves that “I don’t know.” I don’t know about something I have not experienced. I don’t know because I can’t really imagine. I don’t know […]

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Breaking Free…. From the Prison of Limited Perspective

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we arrive at our opinions. Not from the point of view of who is wrong but HOW on earth our opinions can be so divergent. I don’t have the answers yet, but I’d like to share a few ideas with you.   In a world where opinions […]

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