Month: October 2019

• October 31, 2019

  An Understanding Of Understanding: Three Features Of Wisdom

  Let wisdom, for my purposes anyway, be defined as right conduct directly flowing from right understanding. Then we can ask: how shall we enhance and enrich our understanding to the point at which it could be that from which we act? Consider but three features of wisdom: perceptiveness, considerateness, and thoughtfulness. To be very perceptive is to pick…
• October 30, 2019

  The Entrepreneur’s And The Founder’s Conundrum

  I speak with a good number of founders, entrepreneurs, and executives who are involved in the same kind of conundrum. How a countercultural philosopher like me came to speak with such individuals–well, that’s a story for another day. Today I’d like to tell you about that conundrum. Let me begin with an analogy from Robert…
• October 29, 2019

  The Trailhead Of The Path To Wisdom

  Suppose that you’ve been knocked off your horse. Yesterday I call this an “existential opening.” Good. Why good? Because (I argue) you cannot possibly be wise if you’ve never been knocked off your horse. The latter, if you let it, can set the search in motion. Suppose after you got knocked off your horse that you…
• October 28, 2019

  The Blessing Called Getting Knocked Off Your Horse

  For the longest time, perhaps as long as you can remember, you’ve been riding along on your horse, heading in this direction or in that one, going toward this place or that place. All without a hitch. Yes, sometimes you’ve crossed some scrub grass or clanked down on some hard pebbles or almost lost your…
• October 12, 2019

  Jobs Suck

  For the life of me, I don’t know why people have been talking up jobs. All the jobs I’ve had have pretty much sucked. If you can believe it, I was a security guard for the Chicago Bears back when their summer training camp used to be held in my hometown. Next summer I was…