There’s still a lot of things you’ll never know Like why each time the sky begins to snow, you cry Dan Fogelberg, Hard to Say How did things end up like this? Who could have seen this coming? What did we ever do? We’re talking about regret here. Mostly we…

There are two extreme ways to say “I deserve it.” One is a head drooping shoulders sagging feet dragging despondent mumble. The other is an oblivious not an ounce of self-awareness I fucking rule grand entrance, looking around to see if anybody noticed. There’s plenty of both extremes out there…

“The Monday morning after the 2016 election, in a gas station in a logging town in north-west Wisconsin, I asked a group of retired and working men what they thought Trump would do to help them. Ron, a logger, replied: ‘Nothing. Nothing. We’re used to living in poverty, we’re used…

I’m gonna leave this city, got to get away All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can’t stay Goin’ Up the Country, Canned Heat (1968) Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.[1] Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst…

Protestors act like the overthrow of Roe v. Wade is about the law-about Constitutional rights, privacy rights, women’s rights, reproductive rights, etc. It’s not. The Democrats and progressives have taken up the cause on that basis. They’re wrong. The demise of Roe v. Wade isn’t about anybody’s legal rights. It’s…

God exists the way the USA and France and Pakistan exist — the way the Yankees and Lakers and Manchester United exist… the way Apple and Tesla and… well, you get the point. Nations, sports teams, corporations — any group, class, organization you can think of — all of them…

It’s no mystery that extreme political polarization has coincided with the rise of the Christian Right and its Christian Nationalist agenda. The Bible offers a polarized worldview: God’s side is good and true; the other side is evil and wrong. Biblical worldview was formulated thousands of years ago in the…

Objective knows. Subjective believes. Reality needs both. Objective does complicated. Think organizational chart nodes, arrows, lines… linear, hierarchical, systematic, intellectual, orderly, predictable, solvable, scalable, recursive… control, rules, authority, supervision, duties, reports, obligations, pecking order… STEM, formulas, metrics, mechanics…. Subjective does complex. Think Venn Diagram overlapping and interacting circles, shifting magnitude…

Go ahead — believe, dream, envision, get inspired, think big. But then evaluate. Stop believing and take an objective look at what it’s actually going to take for your Big Idea to happen. Or if you already quit your day job, take the time for a good, hard, long, skeptical…