Month: June 2011

• June 25, 2011

  And what, pray tell, do stepping stones look like?

  This is Part 3 of a 3-part series. Part 1 on ways of life business. Part 2 on why starting a business makes sense. Part 3 on picking out stepping stones. — A stepping stone is anything that, within reason and hopefully guided by a decent moral compass,  gets you closer to your goal. Such as: Dialing Back. Slowly…
• June 24, 2011

  Leap of faith or stepping stones?

  This is Part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 1 on ways of life business. Part 2 on why starting a business makes sense. Part 3 on picking out stepping stones. — Stepping stones, definitely! Yesterday I invited you to think seriously about starting a Way of Life business. Today I want to backtrack, returning to the source of the problem,…
• June 23, 2011

  Rules of thumb for starting a way of life business

  This is Part 1 of a 3-part series. Part 1 on ways of life business. Part 2 on why starting a business makes sense. Part 3 on picking out stepping stones. — My prediction is that the Ways of Life business is the next frontier. This is where we’re heading in the 21st C. We’re…
• June 22, 2011

  On the illusions of psychiatry

  In this 2nd piece of a 2-part series on the history and practice of psychiatry, Marcia Angell critically examines the players and forces behind psychiatry’s cozy relationship with big pharma. She argues: After 1950 and especially during the 1980s, psychiatrists made a conscious effort to adopt a biological model. In so doing, psychiatry was able…
• June 21, 2011

  ‘And what makes you qualified?’

  Forget all this nonsense about flashing resumes and writing letters and sending these, as a package, off to the four corners of the universe. Stop fishing: stop seeing what’s out there, casting a wide net, buckling your soul, waiting for daybreak. Instead, turn the question around. Never done this before? Good. Barely heard of it…