Are nonprofit organizations potentially doing next to no good? Sounds like heresy doesn’t it, but what if it’s actually true and what if for-profit organizations are in fact doing quite a bit of good. Continue reading
By definition, every single “end of the world” prediction that has ever been put to the test has been bogus. How do we know this? Because the world is still here, duh! But does this long history of total and abject failure shed light on prophecies of doom whose fateful date has yet to arrive? Continue reading
Ever been tempted to revamp your garden the way they do on those garden makeover shows on telly? Well just hold off on that idea for a moment and let’s see if I can explain why that might not turn out to be among the best moves you ever made… Continue reading
We may well be living in interesting times, but you would struggle to deduce that from the banal, self-obsessed and self-serving messages incessantly pushed our way. It’s like a broken record of Baroness Maria von Trapp (did you know she had a title?) singing Do-Re-Mi-Mi-Me-Me-Me-Me-Me… Continue reading
If you believe that you are somehow owed anything, or that someone else is to blame (or should at the very least “do something”) whenever things don’t work out as you hoped then you are surrendering yourself totally to the whim of events. And trust me, that is not a smart move. Continue reading
Surely you must have occasionally wondered. What’s it all about? What is the point of it all? It is, so far as we can tell, another of those quirks that define us as human – always asking awkward questions. Anyway, did you come to any firm conclusion or merely discover that the more you you get to know and understand, the more you realize just how little you truly know and understand? The lady in the piccy by the way is called Anahareo and she certainly had quite a life. Continue reading
So do you happen to know why “what things cost” and “what things are worth” are, at best, only tenuously related? People for the most part assume that what something costs reflects what it’s worth, but then people assume all sorts of interesting and often completely wrong things. Continue reading
Did you know that you can always tell a self-help guru… but not much. Apologies for that, but it is an extraordinary fact that practically every personal development book or website out there has a section extolling the virtues of getting up earlier. Ever wondered why? Continue reading
