Category: philosophical counseling

• January 13, 2020

  Social Media And Shared Sensibilities

  I’d like to unpack what I wrote to David Gozli on Twitter yesterday in response to his 3-minute video about the style of his YouTube Channel: This is where my heart is too. I haven't found that the distinction is b/t the local and the global, the small and the scaled up. It's not even…
• January 11, 2020

  In Relationships, Graceful Timing IS (Almost) Everything

  Lost in most modern communication is understanding of the supreme importance of graceful timing: there is most certainly the right time to write to someone, to speak with someone, or to act on someone’s behalf. Usually, we feel this because we surmise that such a one to whom we wrote or with whom we had anticipated…
• January 10, 2020

  Silicon Valley Alchemists

  You’ll never understand Silicon Valley until you consider the possibility that it is not centered on technology bent on changing the worldalone. Denizens of Silicon Valley are  instead rather like alchemists. * A commitment to technologies of social and technological transformation goes hand in hand with a commitment to technologies of self-transformation. Hence, it’s fitting…
• January 9, 2020

  ‘I Lose Everything’

  One man I speak with believes and feels that he has “lost everything.” He keeps changing jobs with a view to bettering his financial situation; the overall economic situation in this South American country continues to be more precarious; he lost his dog and his longtime therapist recently; he may be separating from his wife.…
• January 8, 2020

  A Conversation About Why One Starts Meditating In Earnest

  Step 1: Push & Pull You find yourself drawn toward meditation. You ask me: “Why meditate?” Notice that I’ve never said that you should meditate. Nor that you should not. Observe that you’ve wanted to know more about meditation. About what it is and about what it does. Therefore, something about meditation is–forget about how…