For years now, I’ve been drawn to the mind of Robert D. Kaplan. It's not that I've always agreed with him, but his insights have rarely failed to pull me in. Maybe it's for all the reasons that I wrote last week’s post, A … [Continue reading]
“If those around him had known how to intervene to stop him, it would never have gotten to this point,” someone might have said about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently. I wasn’t expecting to write about bystander interventions today, but was … [Continue reading]
I come from people who loved to search faces. As a kid, my folks would visit a honky-tonk strip in a place called Savin Rock early on a Saturday night and, of course, they’d take me along. They’d park in a good spot on the main drag, open the windows … [Continue reading]
I've always wondered: how did somebody I meet end up doing the job (or jobs) that they’re doing? After many of these exchanges, the most telling answers always seem to involve early preferences that they'd chosen to act upon. It’s what you … [Continue reading]
Yesterday, when I sat down to write to you I didn’t really feel like making the effort. Instead, a few relaxing hours with a slow cup of coffee were calling to me. But then my thoughts challenged my feelings. “Being useful on a … [Continue reading]
