UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

So much in life functions in a set of concentric circles. Like planets in orbit around the sun. The closer to the ball of fire at the center of the galaxy, the more intense the relationship with the heavenly bodies spinning in worship.
Life on the outer circles is generally passionless. It is like talking with [...]

I watched an interview recently with Ted Turner, the odd-ball genius who built a media empire, married a movie star and owns more land than anyone else in North America.
He is one of the rare ones who speaks insanity and exceptional insight in the space of a single sound bite. As an example of the [...]

We live in a world of naysayers, doomsday predictors, pessimists and alarmists. They always see a theat that will bring us down, end life as we know it, wreck our dreams, play havoc with all we hold dear.
But they always overlook Malthus and the human ingenuity he preferred to ignore. An 18th century English economist, [...]

When my sons were young, I hated Open School week. The parents would be marched in to talk with teachers about all manner of bureaucratic gobbledygook pertaining to grading systems and course requirements and I felt like I was being held hostage once again by the teachers at P.S. 186 in Queens, NY, who [...]

Imagine you are walking down the street and you see a restaurant going out of business.
The proprietor is at the front door, looking inside the space that was once his company. You wind up engaged in a conversation. He tells you he has been forced to close up because, “Well, I’m not very good at [...]