Learning isn’t doing; learning comes from reflecting on doing. In other words, the experience we have doesn’t come in and of itself. It is when we reflect on those experiences that we learn what those experiences teach us. Original writing date: June 10, 2005

I’ve always viewed myself as a proponent of participatory democracy. I’m in favor of representative democracy, of course; but the ideal from back in my Greek philosophy days was a city state in which participatory democracy flourished. However, when I see it play out based on current economics, it appears to be a whole lot [...]

The Drama Index: the extent to which there is too much intensity, too much feeling, too much emotion, too much passion, about simple decisions that just simply relate to what needs to be done. Original writing date: March 12, 2007

I was at the corner ready to make a right-hand turn out of our neighborhood with my two school-age boys with me at around 7:30 in the morning. It’s something that I do during the school year every single morning pretty much without incident. On this particular morning, where the traffic was a little heavy, [...]

We almost need to have a director of “raving fans” in the company. The sole responsibility is to make sure that in each of the product lines we are incessantly taking care of our customers. We treat customer service as a very reactive process, not a proactive process where we create incessant fans. Original writing [...]

I don’t want to live a life creating an illusion of meaningfulness if deep in my heart I know that what I do each day isn’t meaningful. Original writing date: April 19, 2005

5th: Food, clothing, shelter, water, safety 4th: Companionship, sex, love, money 3rd: Self-expression, power 2nd: Spiritual manifestation 1st: Self-actualization Original writing date: November 14, 2006

The German philosopher, Schelling, in his book called “System of Transcendental Idealism,” said: “History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the absolute.” In that book, in the spring of 1800, he created the clearest formulation of evolutionary spirituality where the concept was not that we had fallen away from God, but [...]

I want to share with you an exchange I had under the Tuscan sun. I was sitting in the central piazza with the cook/maid who had taken care of us during our stay in Tuscany. She is a very simple woman whose name is Maria, and she is one of the ones who conveyed to [...]