I Bet Yo Mamma Can’t Change the World

Earlier this year I said goodbye to an organization I put a lot of time and effort into. At the time my mind was focused on the frustration of seemingly no one striving for excellence. Steve Jobs once said, “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” [...]

Sustainability Questions to Ask an Independent (Private) School

Sustainability? No, I am not talking about helping Al Gore improve the charts shown in his next presentation. I am talking about the tough questions that need to be asked during the tough times we find ourselves in: times in which the public markets do not seem to be correlated with the average person’s [...]

Yes, You Can Change the Past

Forgetting the argument of reality vs. solipsism one can certainly agree that what matters to us as humans is our perception of the past. Then, paradoxically we are used to the phrase, “Perception is reality.” Maybe for the same phrase under solipsism would be “Reality is perception”?

To move on let us define the ‘past’ [...]

Why I write…

Well, WordPress is certainly up and running! For someone just poking around with a new toy set I seem to have been able to put a lot of polish into its layout over a very short period of time. I guess that shows the power of today’s tools given a little knowledge and amazing access [...]

To score, keep your goals to yourself: Study

Interesting. When I first read that title the first thing that came to mind was, “That is not what I believe!,” yet after skimming the article I understand and agree with its point.

“It’s very surprising,” says study co-author Peter Gollwitzer, a professor of psychology at New York University. “We always think that if we [...]