What Can We Learn From Past Disasters To Prevent Future Ones?

by | Jan 19, 2020 | Survival

This is the premise of Stuff Doesn’t Just Happen: The Gift of Failure. Two books, each one focusing on seven great disasters of the past. Have we learned from them? What can we learn? Every disaster usually involved seven things happen. Six cascade events and...

When an artist gets discouraged remember this . . .

by | Jan 14, 2020 | On Writing

There was a young girl who wanted to be a violinist. She practiced hard for many years. Finally, when she was a teenager, her hero, a famous violinist, a master, whom she modeled herself after, was coming to town for a concert. The young girl attended the concert and...

When Should You Not Trust Experts?

by | Jan 8, 2020 | Survival

Passenger on British Midland Flight 92 reflecting on hearing the pilot announce he was shutting down the right engine: “We were thinking: ‘Why is he doing that?’ because we saw flame coming out of the left engine. But I was only a bread man. What did I know?” We put...
How to Write and How to be a Writer

How to Write and How to be a Writer

by | Jan 6, 2020 | On Writing

The two are somewhat different. There are lots of writing books out there. It seems after a certain number of years writing, each author tries to capture the essence of their craft and art. I first did this in the early 90s, which, yikes, is a while ago. My first...