Read Good Walk Spoiled? I reckon it’s a great book. It’s about golf, but really a story about characters. Characters under pressure. That’s golf – either a casual hit or a classic test of character. At the highest levels of the game, the classic tests can be...
When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection. Daniel...
When do you know you are going out of business – just before you do. Why? Framing Bias. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman explained this years ago. Basically, when options are framed positively, most of us have a natural bias to favour that option. Whereas when options...
Our #2 Daughter, the family’s leading actress, recently flew off to find work hopefully in Netflix’s expanding presence in Vancouver, BC. Going for a couple of years, or longer based upon future stardom, the family wanted to hang around until her final few steps with...
My eldest daughter loved her first job. It was in our local video store during her last years at high school. Way back, she was always the one we had to drag out of the place by the collar of her Wiggles dressing gown every family video night. Her joy working there...
Presume, like me, you looking to buy a new car. I prefer Toyotas. Why? They do the job I need. They are reliable. They are everywhere. My twenty-something kids will be safe in them, they can’t do too much damage to them, parts are not ridiculously priced, and...
