Today is the Winter Solstice, the day when the sun stretches out to its farthest point from the earth, pauses, and begins its return. I haven’t had time to write my regularly scheduled essays during the holiday season, so consider …
Mechanical Thinking 2: Wishing You an Unmechanical Holiday Read More »
This is the beginning of a series of explorations into what I’m calling “mechanical thinking.” By that, I mean the use of metaphors from the machine realm to describe people, things, and concepts that are organic in nature. Words are …
The Message and the Meaning Communication is the effort to convey meaning. When we think of communication, we probably imagine people talking to one another, and maybe reading messages that the other one wrote. Those are good examples, but there …
How to (Do a Hell of a Lot More Than) Think for Yourself 8: The Message and the Meaning Read More »