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Pleasant Sunday
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…
Time Out for Safety
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…
Self-Critical Mass
Source Code and Gratitude.
Crowd Control
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 –…
New Orders
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…
Listen Up
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…
Salavge Your Dali
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…
Sincere Irony
End times humour
Treehouse of Life
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.…
Ineffitability of Capture
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…
Betrayal in Autismland
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.…