Good and Pleasure

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 itself to the world as the easy way to manage the profound difficulties of creating…

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 face the election season we need to keep this in mind for our leaders. The…

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 and mentor. Here is an example of such language by a poet named Naomi Shihab…

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 bought a shiny something or other, but all new cars look nice so you can…

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 sharpened, this projects efforts are falling short in terms meeting today’s needs. The Four Pauses…

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 there is a chance I will never master the cube’s challenges to my particular brain…

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 intelligence. My postings on this website have thinned out lately because I have had sort…

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 of “post-activisim”? Whenever my work dries up and I can’t find traction in this task…

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 my equanimity and shout out: “Are you kidding me? “How do you move from the…

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 things that have happened in their lives. In hard dark times this list is what…