seanessay.com In my youth, I was inspired by the father in the memoir Fifth Chinese Daughter, as he made copies of every letter he sent, and kept every letter he received. Although I was as lazy as the next guy, somehow I managed to always find carbon paper or make photocopies. Back then, for normal […]
Exciting Government Book
seanessay.com I found an exciting book, The Fifth Risk, about the U.S. federal government, by the same guy who wrote Moneyball (now a movie with Brad Pitt) The Blind Side (Sandra Bullock) The Big Short, exposing the 2008 Wall Street global meltdown (Brad Pitt again) and The Flashboys. (movie rights acquired) This one exposed how […]
Angry At Apple
seanessay.com I’m not angry with Apple, any more that I’d fight with the Russians in Ukraine. But I’d fight against the Russians, and I’m feeling angry at Apple. I was at the Apple Store, in the “mall,” in the late afternoon today. (Called “Chinook Centre”) It’s Tuesday. I knew from my recent visit that you […]
Meetings Foul and Meetings Competent
seanessay.com (under 1,000 words—until David Bowie footnotes) If tomorrow I was at a “gathering,” be it a community centre meeting, workshop, wedding reception, poetry recital, dinner party, two day business retreat, three day conference— OK, I’ll stop brainstorming now. Then I might be a timid wallflower; I would keep silent even as I saw things […]
Hoverboards in New London
seanessay.com Leaping from a prompt, falling down, down a rabbit hole, while writing to see what happens… at Free Fall Fridays. prompt- Thinking box “You are thinking,” he said ponderously “inside the box.” We were in the boardroom and BJ Edison, the CEO, was addressing all his senior and middle executives. I traced a box […]
My Child to be a Leader
seanessay.com I wrote to Derek Sivers, after his 44 hours of being podcast interviewed. (link) Note: If Derek likes to teach, then I like to listen. Because (joke) here in God-fearing capitalist America, we listen when a self-made millionaire speaks. Dear Derek, Greetings from the best half of North America I liked a paragraph in […]