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It’s 2,000 years in the future. What item from today could an archaeologist find that would falsely depict our time period? A hamburger and milkshake. “What the hell?”, the alien archaeologist said, picking through the ruins of our once thriving planet. The other archaeologists look over. “It looks like they used this as food and […]

I said “Yes” to speak at a conference a few months ago. And then… I ghosted them. I didn’t show up. I didn’t tell them I wasn’t going to show up. I thought I wanted to go. But what I really wanted was to be asked. I wrote to them at first, “How come you […]

I had to throw a coconut in the street at midnight on the corner of Greenwich and Lispenard. I was told to smash it.  I threw it and it bounced and it laughed at me. What the heck do I do now? A car came by and I was ashamed. I ran into the street […]

Unbelievable. 12 straight draws in the World Chess Championship between reigning champion Magnus Carlsen and American challenger Fabiano Caruana. Is that a failure for Magnus? Did he not defend his title? No! This is a great success. Because of second-level strategic thinking. I have failed to do second-level strategic thinking many times. Example: I ran […]

Sometimes I wake up depressed. I want more. I want to be the hero of my story. I think of the stupid things I said the night before. I worry what people think of me. I worry if my kids like me. I reset once-friends and what they “did” to me. I want to be […]

Thanksgiving, I went up on stage. 15 people were in the audience. A small number. It didn’t matter. It was an American holiday so nobody in the audience was from the US except my two daughters. So I didn’t use my regular material. I just said, “We’re like a United Nations here. Tell me your […]

If you enhance the lives of the people around you, you will enhance yourself. The days are often foggy, the ships at sea get lost. Being the beacon saves lives. I only know because I have lived so much of my life in a fog. Crashing into the shore, with nobody as my beacon, nobody […]