It’s easy to be kind Josh Shear 07/22/2020 I had a lot of links pulled aside for a post on cancel culture today. Cancel culture isn’t the desire to see someone like Bill… Continue Reading
Ethics and support: What do you want from media? Josh Shear 07/15/2020 The opinions herein are mine, not my employer’s. This statement is original to the post, not forced by my employer after the fact. Edited to… Continue Reading
Go the distance Josh Shear 07/08/2020 I’m running again. Training. Another half marathon, in November, if COVID doesn’t keep us from running it. I suppose if it does, I’ll run the… Continue Reading
Prying apart the sides: George Washington on our current situation Josh Shear 07/01/2020 We’re coming up on the Fourth of July, Independence Day here in the U.S. Whether to wear a mask during a pandemic is a political… Continue Reading
What do we want? Applying SMART goals to police protests, COVID and more Josh Shear 06/24/2020 One of the things frequently discussed in the motivational and self-help spaces is goal-setting. Even if you don’t sit down and do it as an… Continue Reading
Attack of the black squares: On virtue signaling, rebuilding and actual work Josh Shear 06/17/2020 One of the things I thought would go away with our COVID quarantines was manufactured offense. We were taking care of each other, 10 short… Continue Reading
Perspective: When things get weird, how weird are you willing to get? Josh Shear 06/10/2020 In the film “Men in Black II,” there’s a scene involving some other-worldly residents of a locker at Grand Central Terminal in New York City.… Continue Reading
George Floyd and COVID-19: Land of the … Josh Shear 06/03/2020 Note: It takes a while to get there, but this is a post about the death of George Floyd and the resulting demonstrations across the… Continue Reading
Learn to shift: Lessons from Nintendo Josh Shear 05/27/2020 I recently learned that Nintendo — you remember Nintendo, right? Super Mario Brothers? Duck Hunt? Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A,… Continue Reading
Explore Josh Shear 05/20/2020 I was out for a walk with the kiddo and the pupper recently when I saw something that I forgot I hadn’t seen in a… Continue Reading