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I want to show you my room

My partner Anna and I have developed a lot of shortcuts, as partners often do, for letting each other know when a particular something is...

Tantrum... then and now

Year's ago I was on a ferry about to head home across Puget sound after work (among the more awesome commutes in the world) and I was...

Cleansing by fire

I had a very special 21st birthday. It did not involve drinking margaritas and mudslides until the next day slid to the floor and just...

Grief is close today

Watching someone I love grieving a deep and sudden loss. Trying to find silence in a house that yells with pain. I don’t know what to...

For the a&$#le who judges you

Anybody remember those Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation shows that use to go around in the 80’s and 90’s? Kinda dating myself here,...

Summaries!

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” - George Bernard Shaw Have you ever been in a...

Coming off your position

You can be RIGHT... or you can be HAPPY. Today’s Communication Trick is about the latter. It’s called coming off your position. Next time...

The Framing Effect

"The tendency to make different decisions in the same situation if the options are framed negatively or positively" I first met the...

Present Bias

"The tendency to give stronger weight to payoffs that are closer to the present time when considering trade-offs between two future...

Brain Training

I've been teaching my brain wrong. (That sentence has to be ungrammatical. Sounds like something Dubya would say. Wrongly? hmm... I...

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