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 […]

Debrief on a Zoom Meeting

seanessay.com Inspiring bedside reading: The Art of Gathering subtitled (Goodreads link) How we meet and why it matters by Priya Parker: A reminder that, as my college teacher for “how to run a meeting” told us, “You can be competent, or you can be incompetent.” Ms Parker is delightfully competent. I wrote this “essay-report” about […]

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 […]

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