We didn’t ask to be born into a culture that produces so much garbage, but we were. Now, nearly any place you live, if you walk in a public place, you pass litter. I don’t go out of my way to pick it up, but when I pass litter and it doesn’t take too much effort, I pick some up. I don’t pick up everything. I give myself constraints to[…] Keep reading →

Rob starts by sharing his experience from leadership coaching in the context of a hospital with people in intensive care as well as their families. Situations are often emotionally intense. Treating just facts doesn’t work, or can work against you. It can be “terribly ineffective” (not unique to medicine). He recounts learning to lead through emotional awareness, using social and emotional skills he developed through practice in our coaching. He[…] Keep reading →

Yesterday was the annual Pride March, which means a wrecked Washington Square Park. I make it an annual habit to take pictures of the state of the park after. As usual, to clarify, I’m selecting the event not to say anything about the march itself, its causes, or its people, but for the garbage. My mission is to change American and global culture and the pictures illustrate our culture. I[…] Keep reading →

This week I finished: A Faith Undefeated, about Corrie ten Boom: I learned about Corrie ten Boom from Edith Eger’s The Choice. Eger only mentioned ten Boom’s name. Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch woman who lived with her family in Haarlem, Holland. The family ran a watchmaking and repair store that had operated over a century. They were devout Christians and when the Nazis took over, they helped Jews[…] Keep reading →

I should have written about this fun interaction with the core team working on the alumni community site this spring. Four of us were on a call. We were struggling to figure out a technical challenge. We wanted to do something that the host software didn’t seem capable of doing. We felt close to giving up. Would we have to pay for the higher tier? Pay for a service call[…] Keep reading →

I wrote the other day in Why I love the heat, even when it’s 95F (35C) on the way to 102F (39C) about how the heat, while uncomfortable, gave me reason to grow, learn, and connect. Among other things, it connected me to the countless people around the world and back in time who live and lived in such conditions. I can learn from our grandparents and people in other[…] Keep reading →

I didn’t realize the media had covered the heat spell so much. I only knew people kept asking me about sleeping without air conditioning the past few days. Now that I looked up the news from a couple days ago, I see they were going nuts about a heat dome. All I know is that for the past three nights, I woke up sweating and had trouble falling asleep, even[…] Keep reading →

A few people commented on my delivering food yesterday at the hottest part of the day. The temperature hit 101F (38.3C) while I was pulling around 80 pounds of food in a cart, according to my phone’s app . People often also flap their gums about not having time to volunteer. I never hear them say they don’t have time for social media or other screen time, yet Americans average[…] Keep reading →

New York City is supposed to hit 102 F (39 C) today. So far it’s 95 F (35 C) and since my battery was drained and the rest of the week is forecast to be cloudy, I’m out in the park charging. The park is mostly empty. Here’s my view right now, showing a fraction the number you’d see when the temperature was lower. You can also tell I’m sitting[…] Keep reading →