How Three Words Could Change Your Career
Here’s a fun challenge for you: if you had to describe yourself in three words, what would they be? Before you answer, think: these words have to apply to all facets of your life. They have to be so innately true to you that they permeate your career, your home life,...
Why I Wrote A Book
If my former high school English teachers knew I’d written a book, they’d likely roll in their graves. Then they’d probably leave their graves, find me, and demand answers. I was a kid who crashed into teachers’ cars and calculated the exact number of days I could...
We Are All Prisoners of Our Own Perspectives
I recently had the honor of speaking at the 75th annual Bretton Woods Conference. The amalgamation of people was one of the most fascinating I’ve ever encountered in my life, filled with a wide range of perspectives and beliefs, which got me thinking about my own...
Holistic Thinking: One of the most effective problem solving methods available to us
Years ago, I helped my daughter build a miniature working roller coaster for her middle school science class. As someone who paints in his free time, I have to say, the roller coaster looked great. But by the time we were finished, there was about a fifty/fifty chance...
Note from Bretton Woods
At the end of July, more than 200 of the world’s boldest and most diverse thought leaders gathered in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire over 4 days to examine the past, assess the present and explore the future of the global economy. It was beyond wonderful to be a keynote...
AI In Medicine
Artificial intelligence has had many promising applications in medicine, but has also had some disappointing failures in realizing that promise. IBM’s Watson was supposed to provide expert diagnostic advice by learning from interactions with doctors during...
The Social Order Behind Video Games
Multiplayer video games rise as players flock to their virtual worlds only to fall because they are no longer fun to play. This often happens because players become disgusted with the behavior of other players and it becomes impossible to play without someone else’s...
Spotlight on Brain Aneurysm Survivor Tom Tinlin
Growing up and still living in South Boston, Massachusetts, I don’t find myself to be a truly open person. I tend to hold things a little close. That was until a ruptured brain aneurysm almost ended my life on April 30, 2017. Laying in the ICU for two weeks, and not...
Democracy is in Trouble
“Democracy is not guaranteed and it’s not inevitable.” Pop quiz – which great American hero is the above from? I’ll give you a moment…take a guess… Time’s up. Trick question. It’s a British investigative journalist named Carole Cadwalladr. If you don’t have 15 minutes...
Bad Guys & Big Ideas
Here’s a question for you, what do Hollywood storytellers and National Security red teams have in common? They both start with the bad guy, or villain. A Hollywood writer knows that a story won’t come to life without the tension of the adversary. DoD red teams know...
To Thine Own Self Be Truer
Lying is far more pervasive than most people want to admit. People naturally want to believe that they are honest and have good intentions, and only bad people lie, cherry pick facts for an argument, or pass themselves off as being more certain about something...
EVE of Destruction
Many online games feature extensive and realistic worldbuilding and have rich, complex environments that reflect reality, at least on a social level. Items in the game World of Warcraft are often traded for real world currency outside the game, as they are in...
The Pelosi Campaign Plan to Reopen Government
“Winning” is rarely an accident, in my experience. Even if you have your Queen and your opponent’s highest piece on the chess board is a rook, there’s a process required to get to checkmate. Life is frequently a chess game and the game changes with every move. That’s...
The Renaissance and a Modern Thoughtful World
Archetypal Renaissance Men and Women inspire me. I love their seemingly insatiable curiosity and ability to look at life and problems differently. Perhaps that’s why I’ve attempted to learn something new every year, and why the Renaissance became such a core component...
Wisconsin U.S. Senate: National Security Matters!
As someone who has been involved in national security my entire adult life, I will be the first to tell you that I’m biased, I have to think about foreign policy, international affairs, threats to the homeland and more all the time. That has been my reality since...
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