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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...
Doug Weiss
Jun 9, 20244 min read
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...
Doug Weiss
Jun 2, 20243 min read
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...
Doug Weiss
May 26, 20243 min read
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...
Doug Weiss
May 19, 20243 min read
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...
Doug Weiss
May 12, 20244 min read
Disintermediation
Among many new words in our vocabularies since the advent of the Internet, disintermediation may be one of the most understated to emerge...
Doug Weiss
May 5, 20245 min read
Compost
Confession, I knew the title would get your attention, but the actual topic of this post is about a subject most folks don't want to read...
Doug Weiss
Apr 28, 20243 min read
Life and Death
I have written before on the subject of consciousness and new theories about what it means to be conscious. The other day I spent a few...
Doug Weiss
Apr 21, 20243 min read
Toxicity
Undoubtedly, you’ve heard the phrase Toxic Masculinity, but toxicity isn’t limited to the male gender. I’ve titled this post ‘toxicity’...
Doug Weiss
Apr 14, 20244 min read
America doesn't need to be saved
Hear me out. We have our share of challenges as we always have. America was born out of challenges and with very few exceptions we’ve...
Doug Weiss
Apr 7, 20243 min read
Manipulation
One of the earliest lessons we learn in life is the art of manipulation, even my grand dog knows how to practice it. On early mornings...
Doug Weiss
Mar 31, 20244 min read
A Ripe Old Age
I am at the point in life where I am more conscious of the decisions I make, as well as those I made in the past regarding my potential...
Doug Weiss
Mar 24, 20246 min read
The Right Thing
Life is constantly presenting us with choices, sometimes benign ones which require no moral struggle but other times weighty and...
Doug Weiss
Mar 17, 20245 min read
Peace Out
A recent post on a social media site expressed sadness at the decline of the hippie generation. Remember Woodstock, Haight Ashbury,...
Doug Weiss
Mar 10, 20244 min read
100 Years of Solitude
If you have not read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece I would commend it to you. I just finished reading it again after a twenty-year...
Doug Weiss
Mar 3, 20243 min read
Déjà vu
Walking through the National Holocaust Museum a few weeks ago was a somber and disturbing experience, not just for the reasons one would...
Doug Weiss
Feb 25, 20244 min read
Catastrophizing
I learned a new word today, catastrophizing. It describes a mental health condition, a thought pattern if you will that leads people to...
Doug Weiss
Feb 18, 20244 min read
Principles
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about the divisions in our country. It is hard to remain objective, to see the other...
Doug Weiss
Feb 11, 20247 min read
Exemplars
If you spend any time at all on social media—and I confess I do, you have undoubtedly seen your fair share of posts displaying some...
Doug Weiss
Feb 4, 20243 min read
Parody
One of my favorite Saturday afternoon Television shows back in the early 90’s was a Science Fiction comedy that lampooned truly horrible...
Doug Weiss
Jan 28, 20243 min read
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