Author: Chris
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Ethical Leadership
As I mentioned in the intro to my last post, I spent last week cloistered in the woods south of Atlanta at a week long company sponsored leadership training. I had a combination of both high a low expectations going in: high expectations about the quality of the course which were set primarily based on the…
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Hostages to fortune
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon
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Great write up on a recent Trump speech
This is the most informative and well thought out piece I have read on a 2016 presidential candidate so far (not that I have read a lot…but its still really good).
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90 second book review: The Politics of Obedience
Not much time to post this week. I’m out of town getting some (actually pretty good) management training. It’s taking up most of my days and nights, but I did manage to finish one of the books (OK, it’s more like a pamphlet) that was recommended to me at Porcfest: The Politics of Obedience by…
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GoPro video from local IDPA match this past weekend
I was supposed to miss this past weekend’s local IDPA match at Lloyd’s Wildlife Management Area in Crittenden but I ended up being able to go. I am the match director for this match but since I wasn’t planning on being there someone else had planned all the stages and ran most everything on site.…
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Some days you just gotta hack
For whatever reason yesterday was a good hacking day. Wasn’t exactly what was on my to do list, but just got in a flow and things were working so I kept at it. I am not a developer, nor do I play one on the internet. But I do think of myself as a hacker.…
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Legal Language
I’m listening to an interview of Bryan Garner on Slate. I will admit to not having heard of him before this interview (I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV), but I had heard of one of his primary works: Black’s Law Dictionary (he evidently serves as the primary editor). Language is…
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Four rules of safe politician handling
I was catching up on some Porcfest suggested reading over the last few days and came across an interesting idea in Tannehill’s The Market for Liberty. I’m only about a quarter way through (very good so far) but thought this quote was interesting: It doesn’t matter whether a man goes to church every day or advocates atheism,…
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90 second book review: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Another book down from the ever growing reading pile. I am starting to feel a bit like Sisyphus: every time I finish a book and go back to the pile for the next its 3 books taller. I guess that is simply a cautionary tale: be careful what you start ;-). The subject this time…