Is “good” pleasant? The short answer for The Good Decision discipline is “no”. “Is integrity easy” might be the more appropriate question and the answer is also more obvious: no, integrity is not easy. The Good Decision will never sell… Continue reading

When it comes to the word good, I have long come to the conclusion that cruelty is never good. The enjoyment and mastery of cruelty in ones language and actions is a fatal flaw in the human character. As we… Continue reading

Poetry can take us to places that political and analytical language cannot. Some language slips through the screens of culture, gender, religion, nation, patriotism, vengeance and justice and simply speaks the hard planked heart language of mother, father, elder, infant… Continue reading

For me this project is an effort to rescue good from its relatives nice and kind. Nice is the form of manners that avoids conflict through the use of faint praise. “Nice car!” one might say to the friend who… Continue reading

I have taken a break from my postings as of late to gather perspective. The Good Decision as a project needs to better communicate something that is critical to the times we are in. Thus far, while the focus has… Continue reading

I concluded my last over-long post with the sentence: “Our world’s trouble right now is not that AI is becoming more competitively human;  it is that humans are becoming more like AI”.  I work each day with a Rubik’s cube knowing that… Continue reading

We will all have to sort through the problems that are building around the rise of artificial intelligence. We are approaching a time when we will have to take a more critical look at our own bias relating to coveted… Continue reading

Author’s disclosure: nonviolence, kindness, communications are some attributes that comprise my Sense of Good. Please remember all attributes are, in part, aspirational. I am a student of these attributes and certainly not a master. Are we living in the age… Continue reading

Already in daily life the political conversations in the homes, streets and in the air, are positioning for advantage. More often than not I find myself deeply disturbed by the content of these anticipatory political forays. I want to chuck… Continue reading

The mentor relationship is often experienced a relationship of grace and miracle. I encourage the reader to list the names of the people who were these ‘gift relationships’ of mentoring and use the inventory to stay tuned to the good… Continue reading