I came up with a saying decades ago that has guided my life. It’s this: “You can’t choose what to look at, but you can choose how to look at it.” The main building block to this realization was master negotiator Robert Dawson’s audio series on negotiation tactics, where he gave the example of holding … [Read more…]
When it comes to economics there’s theory and there’s reality. Many Trump supporters say he created the “strongest economy in history” but that’s simply not true. Trump simply rode President Obama’s wave, enhancing it through deregulation and Fed rate cuts as the Obama’s momentum slowed. Had it not been for Covid, his pseudo-prosperity would have … [Read more…]
It’s funny how in the face of a deadly disease, American citizens, the richest and smartest people in the world, cannot unify on how to best protect ourselves from a biological crisis. We are so socially inept and our social model subsists on such a high degree of superficiality, that we cannot produce the candor … [Read more…]
The media are in an uproar about the crime wave that isn’t. Over the last few months, news report after news report relentlessly tells America that robberies are increasing, indicating a “new wave of crime.” There isn’t a new crime wave, rather the actual “wave” is in societal concern and media reporting these wrongdoings. These … [Read more…]
I learned a lot about myself when writing To Pimp a Nation. The thought of exposing my views to others shaped and refined many of those very views. Cultivating my beliefs for public scrutiny wrangled in a lot of incomplete notions in my mind I felt strongly about; it put them in check. I realized … [Read more…]
Obnoxious humanity We humans are unbelievably full of ourselves and Western Culture drives us to the pinnacle of this delusion. Heralding the human race as the best of all beings, we humans fail to realize we are merely a species amongst others and our way of life is no more than a style of existence. … [Read more…]