5 min readI want to show you my roomMy partner Anna and I have developed a lot of shortcuts, as partners often do, for letting each other know when a particular something is...
5 min readTantrum... then and nowYear'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...
9 min readCleansing by fireI had a very special 21st birthday. It did not involve drinking margaritas and mudslides until the next day slid to the floor and just...
2 min readGrief is close todayWatching 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...
3 min readFor the a&$#le who judges youAnybody 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,...
2 min readSummaries!"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” - George Bernard Shaw Have you ever been in a...
1 min readComing off your positionYou 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...
3 min readThe Framing Effect"The tendency to make different decisions in the same situation if the options are framed negatively or positively" I first met the...
1 min readPresent Bias"The tendency to give stronger weight to payoffs that are closer to the present time when considering trade-offs between two future...
4 min readBrain TrainingI've been teaching my brain wrong. (That sentence has to be ungrammatical. Sounds like something Dubya would say. Wrongly? hmm... I...