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I wrote this twelve years ago today, but it describes events that happened seventeen years ago. You’ll figure it out… If you wonder what a gorgeous woman like that is doing with a schlub like me, I...
View ArticleAm I being unfair to the Cautious and the Incandescent? Let’s do the math.
You get into the same jams again and again – the snags that never seem to snag anyone else – because you respond in the same way to the same situations over and over again.Photo by: tacit requiem...
View ArticleWhy is love, sex, marriage and family a battlefield? Ci Blindness. I have the...
Human civilization is nothing but the answer to this one monumentally important question: How does a nice guy go about getting a second date around here?Photo by: Kevin DooleyWell, I’ve had a fruitful...
View ArticleLove husbandry: Marriage dies by the snarl – but it thrives in the light of a...
A good marriage makes everyone better: Thriving seeds ever-more-abundant thriving. You breed by breeding, but you breed your ideas with your good example, too.Photo by: Hamza ButtPicking up from...
View ArticleFeeling supervised? Hunted? Haunted? Hounded? I think you’re in a Ci state of...
A Ci life is Narcissus in the hall of mirrors: Your preening fakery alienates you not just from self love but from all love.Photo by: Axel RouvinWhen I was young and stupid, I used to think...
View ArticleSister Mary Elephants all the way down: Why the victims of Ayn Rand end up so...
It’s funny that Ci’s insist that DISC cannot be true with pitch-perfect Ci fit-pitching – but that’s what Ci’s do when their compliance displays run up against defiance.Photo by: IsengardtThe Ayn Rand...
View ArticleThe origin of character: You chose to be who you are before you knew you had...
“Why, yes, I am working you. How’d you guess?”Photo by: Mysudbury.ca Ouisudbury.caMy taxonomy of kids is Infants, Babies, Toddlers, Children. Infants snooze, Babies observe, Toddlers participate and...
View ArticleLeadership beckons – and it’s looking right at you!
Leadership beckons. You split yourself from the herd and you turn and you beckon and you lead love toward love for love. That’s the only reason to lead, and, accordingly, it’s the only reason anyone...
View ArticleWealth is invested capital? Intellectual capital? Humanity’s sole wealth is...
Leadership beckons: When no one knows what to do, humanity’s sole benefactor is the man who does.Watched any news this week? A good week for Trump, a bad one for KimFatty, total devastation for...
View ArticleTweetSchooling @YaronBrook on the death spiral of both #AynRand’s and...
Both #Marxism and #AynRand seek to reproduce by recruitment and indoctrination – cherry-picking the soul-broken Ci’s from Dc or Cd families, as religions have always done – but this is a diminishing...
View ArticleA fast farewell to Greenhurst.
Got Yard Sale?We chapter our marriage in houses. That’s what comes of being in real estate – and being broke a lot. So far, we are Cochise, El Caminito and Greenhurst, the respective street names of...
View ArticleThe DISC of #Trump’s policies: Behind the media-flummoxing bluff is warm and...
Nothing fertilizes human thriving like exploding eggheads…Illustration by: Noé MartínezFrom James Pruitt, by email: Was thinking this morning whether you could apply your take on DISC to countries and...
View ArticleSet humanity free? No need. The enemies of liberty are graciously...
I have the map to a much better future for humanity – but here is the best news of all: We’re headed that way already.Photo by: Ben FrancisI participated in a Facebook debate yesterday, something I...
View ArticleAyn Rand and me – why my homework is late…
Human thriving is not a solitary pursuit? Who knew?I am dilatory, plainly. More than a year since I’ve written anything here, and that story’s horrors bloom like mold spores. For two years and more,...
View ArticleMy only points of disagreement with Ayn Rand, libertarianism and scholarship...
My epistemology professor – a playful peripatetic.I have met a lot of big-O and biggish-O Objectivists over the years – people who were present in the salons at the Hotel Martinique, others who were...
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