Back2Different

I have always suspected that lots of planets lined up identically for Victor's and my births. We don't finish each other's sentences, but we do finish each other's paragraphs. Contemplatives, dogma, dynamism, solipsism, belief systems, impressions and projections, impersonation, human spirit progression (with a long gestation and difficult birth) gave us some things to talk about, and then we took a breath and forged ahead. Victor is a delight and a wonder, a gentle soul who shares with me th...

Via my wonderful friend Craig James arrived Maggie Jackson. So here's a tiny sample of our journey together: The unease of uncertainty is actually a gift. Ambivalent CEOs are actually better performers. It's fear of uncertainty that sets you back, not uncertainty itself. Try on the Unknown. What does it mean to be human now that we are married to these technologies? That's just for starters. Come join us, please, as we explore the rich and wonderful topography that abides between The I...

I met Clarabelle Miray Fields on a forum about creativity and knew I'd need to listen more to what she had to explore. She was self-publishing when she was four, binding her own books using her mother's hole-punch and yarn. She writes speculative fiction, both prose and poetry, and we take a stroll through the land of creativity. She's thoughtful, wide-ranging and candid. And she firmly believes that for writing to grab us, It Has to be Raw. Never know what's going to show up when you cl...

Music, toxic HR culture, confounded with structure, 'I cycled through the pandemic,' moral hazard and money to be made, exam strategies and rock songs, and then our conversation took off. How can you not like listening in on a conversation with Peter Cook, who wrote Sex, Leadership and Rock N 'RolI: Leadership Lessons from the Academy of Rock? We're each (and both) proponents of a world where jobs encourage people to bring their brains to work. Never know what's going to show up when you cli...

No stone left unturned in this one. Tamsin Astor is fearless, peripatetic (as in she's been all over the place geographically and educationally), and embracing. I would love to get together with all the back2different community, walk together for a while, then just sit and listen. I am very blessed to be part of this wondrous crowd, and Tamsin is no exception. Tamsin and I run through the Irish goodbye, the dance of the universe, being a good faker, feeling too much, change as life, and all w...

I hate scratching my head with "I wonder what s/he meant by that?" First of all, I'm an inept fill-in-the-unspoken-part practitioner. Hence my pleasure at getting together with Phil Williams. He wears no barriers and carries no shields. We travel through Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, time in the burn unit, his family and their home, music, and 'the great perhaps,' among other things. We both dreamed of being engineers, the choo-choo kind, but for very different reasons. Nothing is out of ...

Brooke left behind her home country - Turkey - and her successful career at IBM to find a new home - San Diego - and to start her own consulting businesses: purposeful.business is a site for the organizational side of work, yourbestlifeinc.com is for individuals. She made her giant step as she realized that who she was, the singular and only Ozlem, was vanishing. Her humanity and identity were falling away as a requisite for success in the world of corporate homogeneity. She's fun, s...