Doug Weiss
Self-reliance
The other day I came across a post from a young man laying out a bill of particulars accusing his parents of a playing favorites with his...
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Doug Weiss
- Sep 8
- 6 min
Rorscharch
Have you ever taken a Rorscharch test? If you have, you know that tests such as this are used to evaluate personality traits, and help...
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Doug Weiss
- Sep 1
- 3 min
It's Natural
I imagine that you have watched at least one program about nature at some point and I hope it was one featuring David Attenborough. I am...
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Doug Weiss
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Grace
The other day an old favorite of mine came up on my playlist. It was a Joan Baez song, written by the legendary folk singer Phil Ohcs,...
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Doug Weiss
- Aug 18
- 3 min
Just Deserts
If you were expecting a post in lyrical praise of some confection, or a recitation regarding vast oceans of sand (I always confused the...
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Doug Weiss
- Aug 11
- 4 min
Mythology
A few weeks back I wrote about Fr. Richard Rohr's book, Falling Upward . One of the many insightful observations Rohr makes about what...
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Doug Weiss
- Aug 4
- 4 min
Spammers, Scammers and Phishers
I believe I can say without fear of contradiction that every single person reading this post has been subjected to one or all of the...
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Doug Weiss
- Jul 28
- 4 min
Customer Service
When companies refer me to customer service these days I get a cold chill running down my spine, and an existential dread running through...
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Doug Weiss
- Jul 21
- 4 min
Climate Change
I don't want to be accused of pulling a bait and switch so let me say from the outset that this post isn't really about climate change,...
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Doug Weiss
- Jul 14
- 4 min
Black & White
I just finished re-reading for the second time a book that I want to commend to you, Falling Upward, by Fr. Richard Rohr. Rohr is a...
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Doug Weiss
- Jul 7
- 3 min
Platitudes
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a platitude as a statement, especially one expressing moral content that has been used so often as...
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Doug Weiss
- Jun 30
- 3 min
To your health
I don't know about you but it seems every day i read in one journal or another about some amazing medical breakthrough that promises to...
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Doug Weiss
- Jun 23
- 3 min
Fake News
As we entered the twenties--that is the 2000 and twenties, the term Fake News became a watchword both in political contests and of all...
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Doug Weiss
- Jun 16
- 4 min
Research
Artificial Intelligence, and in particular, ChatGPT, have been the subject of considerable attention and some consternation over the past...
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Doug Weiss
- Jun 9
- 4 min
Paying Attention
I recently offered to do some software testing and part of the preparation included taking a test to determine if I had the requisite...
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Doug Weiss
- Jun 2
- 3 min
Meandering
Some of you may know that author of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein, was by profession a philologist. What's a...
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Doug Weiss
- May 26
- 3 min
Mission Statement
During my years consulting for non-profit organizations, I found that efforts to frame a Vision and a Mission statement were a frequent...
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Doug Weiss
- May 19
- 3 min
Dr. Strangelove
Many of us can recall the iconic movie, Dr. Stangelove, a legacy of the age of Atomic anxiety at the height of the Cold War in the...
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Doug Weiss
- May 12
- 4 min
Choosing Beggars
One of the only social media sites I frequent has a thread entitled Choosing Beggars. The gist of what gets posted there are stories...
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Doug Weiss
- May 5
- 5 min
Disintermediation
Among many new words in our vocabularies since the advent of the Internet, disintermediation may be one of the most understated to emerge...
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