Good, Governing, Story, and the Insidious Anecdote

decision-making

  • Good, Governing, Story, and the Insidious Anecdote

    Mistaking an anecdote for a larger trend has been, is and will continue to be a fatal error in building public policy. When intentionally transforming a few anecdotes or stories, true or not, into a trend you have an evil strategy.… Continue reading

  • Good and the Moot of Assassination

    There probably would have been little Charlie Kirk and and I would have agreed upon in the rough and tumble of politics, but all those differences were rendered ‘moot’ by the news of his assassination. From the moment I heard… Continue reading

  • Good, Self Harm, and Arresting the American Work Ethic

    If we Americans were collectively a teenager we would be in therapy for cutting on ourselves.  How very odd that we would arrest one the of support beams of this sprawling concept called the ‘American Work Ethic’.  Keep in mind… Continue reading

  • Good and the Importance of Center

    Show me a high performance athlete who doesn’t understand the importance of the center of gravity. You can’t.   They may not have the language for it but they understand the feel of the center, and when they fall even… Continue reading

  • Good and the Many Faces of Posturing

    “If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite… Continue reading

  • Good, and the Art Cultivating Enemies and Burning Friends

    This writer is not sure of the value of starting a powerful club who won’t have you as a member. And yet that is the apparently strategy of our current leader who took the second most powerful nation in the… Continue reading

  • Good, Change and the Poet Laureate

    We each carry the story of our birthplace in pieces of earth, water, sky and spirit. Though nothing appears to have changed here in this Indian town along the Arkansas River, it is always changing. Joy Harjo from her book Conflict… Continue reading

  • Good and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock

    Nihilism, as this writer understands it, is simply giving up on critical thought, meaning, purpose, or any activity that hasn’t a discernible paycheck or minimally the thrill of retribution on the backend of the effort. Nihilism is apparently making a… Continue reading

  • Good, Character, Parable, and the More Dangerous Liar

    One of the benefits of including a little poetry in these posts is the poems attract interesting, talented writers. One brief connection I have benefited from comes from a response to the previous posting about bad news exhaustion. I will… Continue reading

  • Good, Grief, and the Exhaustion of Bad News

    I sense a bad news exhaustion in myself as well as readers. Writing bad news in bold lettering does little to nothing to counter the bad news of this day. The new AI enhanced cartoons about the current leaders are… Continue reading