I come from a long line of hillbilly storytellers and grew up listening to parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins tell tales about growing up in the mountains of western North Carolina during the Great Depression, about going overseas during World War II to beat Hitler and Tojo, about coming home to marry and start…
I was studying the psychoanalytical techniques of Carl Jung in my spare time, I got involved with developing process maps at work, a manufacturing facility. It occurred to me that consciousness is a process. I wondered why no one had bothered to map out the process, since all processes can be mapped, albeit some of…
I was talking to a colleague at Vanderbilt Law School who is one of the leading legal experts in the U.S. about climate change and its potential consequences. Frustrated by the failure of Congress and the American public to listen to experts and take the issue seriously, he suddenly exclaimed: “I wonder if a work…
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