On Clusters…

Charles and I are beekeepers and spring is a very busy time for us. Coming out of winter, everything is on high alert to reduce the chance the colonies don’t swarm, to check for parasites and signs of weakness, to make sure the queens are present and ramping up their egg production. Then, there are the citizen calls for help[…]

On Hope…

I once had a boss who loved to use the phrase “Hope is not a strategy” to shut down coworkers during status meetings. If a team member used the word “hope,” as in “we hope this new campaign will…” or “we hope the new pricing will…,” he would interrupt with, “Hope is not a strategy.” While I never contradicted him[…]

On Trash…

This week, a half-dozen famous women took a trip into space, an opportunity previously reserved for educated and trained astronauts on purposeful missions to collect data potentially beneficial to human kind. But this wasn’t that serious. Unless I am missing something, these women got this chance because of their fame and/or excessive wealth, and was just for the fun of[…]

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