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There’s No Such Thing As “Doing Good” (part I)

In my capacity as president of my family’s Foundation I am charged with reviewing dozens of LOIs (letter of intent) and Full proposals each fiscal year (which, for us, ends on July 31st). Probably the most used phrase I encounter in these LOIs and Full Proposals is “to do good” or one of its variants, […]

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Are You Suffering From the Heartbreak of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)?

Systems thinkers are trained to look and assess for such things as unintended consequences, side effects, and even “blowback.” I consider myself to be a systems thinker, and I consider our Foundation to be a systems focused foundation. In my first career I was a structural geologist. Geology, along with its close association to evolution […]

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Truer Words—Pathologizing and Medicalizing Life

Today’s Truer Words come from an article by Martha Rosenberg entitled Psychiatrists Seek New Patients at Annual Meeting. Rosen writes about the recent meeting of the APA—American Psychiatric Association. Here’s an excerpt from Rosenberg’s article early on: This is the year the APA puts the finishing touches on DSM-V, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of […]

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Truer Words—Not Saving But Selling Face (Update)

In my May 30th, 2012, Truer Words blog post, I talked about how Facebook is selling us to ourselves. Well, in the “I could not make this up” category, consider the following article entitled On Facebook, ‘Likes’ Become Ads. The article appears to be by Somini Sengupta and originally came out of San Francisco. I […]

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Truer Words—Not Saving But Selling Face

In an earlier post, I suggested that there is much data to be found on the Internet, but not much wisdom. I still feel this to be true. But, occasionally, you can find pearls of wisdom on the Internet. Ergo, I have decided to create a new blog post category entitled Truer Words as in […]

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