I hope everyone is having a pleasant Sunday? Please share a photo of something nice in the comments if you are. I often wish that people would post more online about decent cups of tea, or encounters with nature, or friends, than about philosophy or politics. Particularly on a Sunday. Leave a comment Social media […]
One of my subcontractors wrote the following paragraph, in a leadership and management training manual that my company is delivering for a client: “Most people have experienced working under a bad leader, a poor communicator, or perhaps even an abusive or bullying supervisor. However, few people take the time to honestly reflect on how they […]
Ahoy, shipmates. Sorry for neglecting you all, my fellow Yankee-Jockers. I’m painfully aware that I haven’t posted in a while. It’s been a busy old summer. I took the last 10 weeks off work, (by work, I mean seafaring – still in the office), so that I could be close to home with my wife […]
It doesn’t feel easy to write now. Not, at least, without feeling a measure of futility. I’ve really struggled to finish off the several articles I’ve drafted in the past few weeks. Somehow, you lovely people keep subscribing, despite (or perhaps because of) the recent scarcity of posting. I’m trying hard not to get caught […]
Greetings, Yankee Jockers. Apologies for the unexplained absence. It has been a funny couple of months. To be completely honest, I have had time to write. Indeed, I have been writing plenty. But since the Dali incident and article, I’ve been feeling a bit of a change in my internal constitution that has made the […]
Happy Easter, my friends. I’m going to begin with the Orthodox Paschal greeting today because I think the most important thing that I have come to learn these past few years, is how seriously and dangerously cut off from our traditions we are. So – Christ is risen. Now, down to business. I’m currently serving […]
This blog began about two years ago. With hope, fear, insecurity, desperation, and a curious shift in circumstances that brought an unexpected bounty of free time for reflection and naval-gazing (bad pun intended), I promised you all a weekly meeting. With the luxurious wallowing in free time enjoyed in those extraordinary circumstances of my first […]
Between 1924 and 1932, Henry Landsberger conducted experiments at the Hawthorne Works, which was a telecommunications equipment manufacturing facility in Cicero, Illinois. During his investigations, Landsberger would vary the level of lighting in the factory just outside Chicago and attempt to measure its effect on worker productivity. Regardless of whether lighting was increased, or decreased, […]
Apologies, again, for the relative radio silence. It’s not that I’m not writing. I promise I am. I’ve written a 17,000 word first aid manual, and a 22,000 word navigation and radar manual from scratch in the past 15 days. Throw in some marine risk consulting, and it’s been a fairly productive year thus far. […]
For anyone who is interested, I started the new year by moving into a new office. My little limited company now has 6 B2B clients, and 3 others who soon will be clients. I’m offering technical authorship, marine surveying, and training services to maritime businesses. One of these business owners is a distant relative of […]