Just about anyone who knows the subject will tell you that climate change is a big deal. In fact, it’s a BFD. Most of the perusers of this little newsletter already know that we’re talking about huge impacts to public health, coastline changes and geographic population displacement beyond anything we’ve ...
read more →
You’ve heard it said that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. A very wise young friend of mine once corrected that statement for me by explaining that the better explanation is in fact that power attracts the corruptible.
I believe that he was right, and there’s no shortage ...
read more →
Anyone working in the public health space in the U.S. is facing interesting times for the foreseeable future. The newly installed, thoroughly unqualified, top health czar is a vaccine opponent, propagandist, scam artist, brain worm host and roadkill enthusiast.
I think of him as the Tommy Tuberville of public health. ...
read more →
In working with one of the advisory type groups that I facilitate, there are frequent occasions when invited speakers are given a finite amount of time to present whatever information needs to be shared with our folks.
This often poses a challenge because: (1) experts love to talk at length ...
read more →
Kurt Gray is a professor of psychology and neuroscience who has written a book with an interesting explanation about why people fight about morality and politics and how we might find common ground. Outraged explains that we all have competing views about harm, and the real victims.
Believing you’re going ...
read more →
Truth is still true regardless of how much or how often propaganda and lies attack it. When science, evidence and reason are assaulted, it can be exhausting to constantly be on the defensive. There’s no practical or moral reason to do anything but tell the truth as straightforwardly and clearly ...
read more →
I was in my favorite watering hole last weekend watching little kids and even babies enjoying the place with their parents, which would never have been the case not that long ago. Years back, a buddy and I found a new-at-the-time brewpub that had opened right around when smoking was ...
read more →
I pledged, in the opening paragraph of this little blog, not to debate politics and that’s not what I hope you focus on in this story from The New Yorker. Politicking and policy is inevitably about communicating and how any side of the aisle crafts and delivers overall messages and ...
read more →
I think I’ve been surveyed beyond exhaustion for quite some time now. Every major and minor encounter results in a text or email asking for my feedback (to serve me better), and unless I’m either joyfully giddy or mad enough to sue, I tend to ignore it. Don’t ...
read more →
You’re being judged every time you open your mouth. That judgment becomes even more pronounced when you’re speaking to upset, emotional people. Your credibility, in their eyes, is actually less about the content of the message you’re delivering than it is about you, the deliverer. People are judging who you ...
read more →
