These are essays from the wayback machine. The topics are varied. Some are about business, but mostly rumination on current events and whatever caught my attention at the time.
The Second Arrow
There is a Buddhist teaching called the two arrows. Our lives are full of “stuff happens.” Some of it we like, some of it pains
Who Will Help?
You can’t do this alone, and more to the point, you don’t need to. If you don’t have these kinds of people in your life,
The Next Time You’re Shot with an Arrow
A famous Buddhist parable (sutta) relates a conversation with a man called Malukya. It begins with Malukya demanding answers from the Buddha to what were
Process Matters
The most interesting decisions are the ones for which the results don’t show up until much later. It’s not like choosing something to watch on
Talking Helps
Three helpful ideas for involving other people in your decision-making process. Be hard on the problem, not the people. Politics and participation make for bad bedfellows.
Beware of Solutions Masquerading as Problems
When the problem and the solution are the same, you don’t have a real decision. There’s a difference between “Should we go to Spain this