Category: Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

• Leadership Pep Talk (for Kids)

  

  The Hot Coal I know you’re just a kid. You don’t know much about how the world works. You don’t have many skills yet and you’re not very strong. But I know you have a “vision”, a picture in your head, of how the world could be better. That “vision” is blurry, and it’s hard…

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  March 27, 2025

  leadership, Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

  business, coaching, leadership, management, personal-development

• “But Emergencies are Thrilling!!”

  

  A shout out to my reader in Ireland! I see your flag every post in my stats. (Howw arrr ye en te emreld isle? Hallooh from Australia!) When your team is in Emergency Mode, life is thrilling. You feel really “alive”. You have to react quickly, like a jet pilot in a dog fight. Every…

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  March 25, 2025

  For the head, leadership, Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

• The Jeweller of Antwerp (A Mathematical Riddle)

  

  Here’s a riddle I came up with, while thinking about the Monty Hall problem and the Unexpected Hanging Paradox.

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  February 6, 2025

  For the head, Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

• Decks of Cards and the Size of the Universe

  

  Is the universe actually big enough to simultaneously store all the possible combinations of playing cards?

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  February 3, 2025

  For the head, Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

  abiogenesis, card-games, creation, divination, evolution, probability, tarot, tarot-cards, tarot-reading

• Power Clashes, Jesus and Humility

  Power Frames, Power Clashes In his book, Pitch Anything, Oren Klaff describes his “frames”. (These are not to be confused with the memory frames I have written about in other posts.) He says that a frame is “the instrument used to package authority, strength, status. Everyone uses frames, whether they realise it or not. They…

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  February 24, 2024

  For the head, leadership, Two minute reads, twenty minute writes, Uncategorized

• Exceptional Leadership (in Six Steps)

  The simple power of these six steps calls for deep meditation: MIX: Who are your people? When/where/how are you regularly mixing with them. I’m beginning with my own immediate family. Beyond that, I’m not sure. But I know that ‘Mixing’ requires listening, setting aside my own agenda. It requires at least three people in conversation…

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  February 22, 2024

  For the head, For the heart, Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

  exceptional leadership, leadership, six steps

• Four Frames of Hope – Reframing Memories part 3

  “We need to talk about this differently,” I said. “We both feel so emotionally exhausted from the last year that we see everything dark and despairing.” I’d taken Erin out for coffee, specifically to have this conversation. “What do you suggest?” she asked. “We need to take a different perspective, and realise what actually went…

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  January 31, 2024

  For the heart, Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

• The four ugly frames – Reframing memories part 2

  I’ve been thinking lately about ‘reframing memories.’ (You can read an earlier post here.) My thoughts come from the idea that the colour of a frame will often hilight details of a similar colour inside an artwork. For example, a red frame will draw the viewer’s attention to the red elements and details the painter…

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  January 26, 2024

  For the heart, Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

  depression, guilt, jealousy, Memories, shame, trauma, writing

• In silver and blue – Reframing memories part 1

  I’ve been thinking for the last few weeks about “reframing” memories. You’ve been given a painting on bare canvas. It’s highly detailed, and the artist has used a wide colour pallet. In fact, there’s so much going on in the painting that it’s hard to know what to look at. You want to mount the…

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  January 26, 2024

  For the heart, Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

  art, artist, contemporary-art, Memories, Mid life crisis, painting, paintings, Reframing

• The Hard, Lonely Work

  I had already been at the task for the better part of an hour, and I was about six words in. The libary was closing at ten o’clock, and it was a race against time and against my mental reserves.

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  January 25, 2024

  Two minute reads, twenty minute writes

  bible, christianity, greek, hebrew, old-testament