What was read this week: Dec 29-Jan 4…
“Listening in wild places, we are audience to conversations in a language not our own.”— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass Captivated […]
Poetics of Self-Mastery
“One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience”…
A few days ago I posted about the relationship between Rainer Marie Rilke and Auguste Rodin. Rodin had a mantra
Poetics of Self-Mastery
William Munny, Unforgiven, and the making of the narratives we tell ourselves, Part 3…
Continued from Part 2… The emphasis on the real vs the fake is something we are beset with every day
Poetics of Self-Mastery
William Munny, Unforgiven, and the making of the narratives we tell ourselves, Part 2…
Continued from Part 1… The authentic, the real, is what the biographer is searching for throughout the movie. And it
Poetics of Self-Mastery
William Munny, Unforgiven, and the making of the narratives we tell ourselves, Part 1…
The other night I watched the 1992 Clint Eastwood western, Unforgiven. I hadn’t seen it in years, but it’s a
Leadership, Influence, Poetry
Entropy, the offer, and market penetration…
Robert Smithson, the great land artist of the late 60’s and early 70’s, saw entropy as a central component of
The Poetry of Fulfillment
You must change your life…
Rainer Marie Rilke, the Austrian poet, was at one point in time the private secretary of the French sculptor, Auguste
Leadership, Influence, Poetry
The value proposition of the offer in a shifting marketplace…
I have been puzzled by my failed sales funnel and my first ad campaign. I know I am good at
Poetics of Self-Mastery
“Re-create yourself by forging a new identity …”
Law 25 of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is about the concept of recreation, of not allowing
Leadership, Influence, Poetry
So…here we are…Part 2…
The internet has radically transformed everything about our life. The iPad generation raised in the ever-present glow of the screen.