Perspectives

Laudato si’ – redux.

April 21, 2025

Praise be to you! Pope Francis died this morning. The news media are saturated with material and that material is...

Resilience to hazards and disaster recovery? A FEMA mission, but much more.

April 16, 2025

The previous post revisited resilience to hazards and hazards recovery, LOTRW topics covered multiple times over past years. That reflection...

Here in the United States, is a natural disaster an attack on one state, or an attack on all?

April 8, 2025

Hmm. Why does the question seem familiar? Oh yes! The same idea is enshrined in NATO treaty article 5: The...

Bromley’s No science, no surplus – revisited.

March 27, 2025

In 1999, D. Allan Bromley, a former science advisor to President George Herbert Walker Bush, wrote an op-ed for the...

Bullying? Not an effective habit for turbulent (or any other) times.

March 24, 2025

Tell me something I don’t know, Bill. Most of us consider this is something we’ve always known – innately, or...

Effective habits for turbulent times #7. Sharpen the saw.

March 18, 2025

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” –...

Effective habits for turbulent times #6. Synergize.

March 17, 2025

E pluribus unum (out of many, one) For years, the unofficial motto of the United States[1]. …Our differences are our...

Effective habits for turbulent times #5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

March 13, 2025

If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of...

Effective habits for turbulent times. #4. Think win-win.

March 11, 2025

“No man is an island…, entire of itself; …any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and...

Effective habits for turbulent times. #3. Put first things first.

March 10, 2025

Let’s review. Are you living on the real world? Do you want to make that life – your life –...

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