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 […]
The Nature of Despots, and an Innocent Prime Minister
seanessay.com (1,139 words) I wish my current prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, born out east with a silver spoon in his mouth, could somehow know as much about other leaders, and be as humble and grounded, as President Harry Truman was. My favourite 20th century U.S. president, Truman was a humble vice president until […]
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 […]