“Thank you for your keynote. I sooo needed that. It was lighthearted. I laughed so hard. It was like a weight was lifted.” Last week I finished two days at a conference with over 2000 attendees at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in the shadow of the Silicon Valley techno-leviathans. Here’s what I know: in [...]
Sunset over the west coast of Florida I spent last weekend in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The home of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. (Yes, I realize that the last sentence is gratuitous. . .because if you follow football, you already knew that. If you don’t follow football, it doesn’t matter anyway.) The topic for the weekend [...]
The other day someone asked me how I was. And I lied. I said, “I’m fine, thanks.” No cause for alarm bells. The exchange of perfunctory niceties is woven into the fabric of our days. And we pay it no nevermind. But this time, the internal recoil stopped me. It felt visceral. And I wondered. [...]
