Love is not logical, rational, pragmatic. Love is chaos, pleasure, suffering, lust, regret, madness, euphoria, exhilaration, sleepless nights pondering, wondering, fantasizing, bruding, scheming. Love is war. It’s strategy, planning, attacking, capturing attention, mind, body, and soul. Logic is not the road to success. Seduction is. Naivety and patience loses to cleverness mixed with wisdom in…
Read moreBrothers and Sisters
Some of the best of us have strained relationships with our immediate families. Conflicts, even fued scars and scabs from times forgotten. Some of the best of us, have been unable to mend relationships with our brothers and sisters. How can we expect civilizations to understand each other? Is it so? We must find peace,…
Read moreHave you ever… Swim to shore!
Been unsure Emotionally compromised Falling out of love for the game Unclear Trapped Surrounded Noise noise noise Frequencies jammed Clarity lost — Not my first, won’t be my last, rodeo. – Swimming to shoreWhat most aren’t willing to do. The email came in.Not my first rodeo.Not in a place to fake it.Only one initiate, the singular most amongst all domains: swim to shore.
Read moreFrank Sinatra doesn’t move his own piano.
External Enemy
The absence of an external enemy can lead to the ruin of the state
Read moreDumb people are dangerous.
Dumb people are dangerous for many reasons. Their uncanny ability to rationalize anything and everything. They doubt themselves the least. They attract bad luck. If your opponent is somewhat intelligent, you can expect some type of logical framework. Low intelligence makes people less predictable—not because they’re strategic, but because they can act without logic or…
Read moreIn spite: scale, scale, scale.
There’s a bias that we can’t scale if we attempt to keep our current culture intact. This bias is based on people’s understanding of what cultural norms are. We, PD, are not a ‘normal culture’ because we’re in Toronto. We’re being assessed based on the norms of industries in Toronto. Certain cultural artifacts, however odd…
Read moreWhat business are we in? Leadership
I want to make this clear, because I feel I haven’t done so thus far. We’re not in the business we claim to be. There’s a difference between the business PD is in, and the business I am in, and when I say I, I include you in that statement. We, are in the business…
Read moreLeadership: Our Style?
I refuse to believe there’s only one way of leading. While people intellectually agree, when our style of leading differs from their convention, they’re quick to judge and assume it’s ineffective. Seldom, if ever, does the difference excite curiosity and wonder, questions and conversation. No. Quite the opposite. We’re told it doesn’t work because of…
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