As I write this, we are ending 2020 and things are looking both down and up as it relates to the Coronavirus. In America, where we’ve had limited engagement and coordination at the federal level, we are going through the expected and world leading spike in cases and deaths. At…
I’ve been thinking more and more about the concept of a win-win on a macro scale. Most of this is probably due to the surprising way in which the most recent national election grabbed my attention. The non-stop conversation about states that were read versus states that were blue reminded…
We have too much media. It’s everywhere. If you go back to the period before we had video recordings, household access to major media, especially video, was very controlled. Movies were only in theaters for a short period of time, and then, if you were lucky, you’d see them on…
I recently got an email about a webinar being put on by a large statewide organization. In today’s day and age that’s not especially an interesting happenstance. What made this one catch my eye was that two former colleagues of mine were putting it on. I immediately clicked on the…
One of the very rare benefits of having kids, at least for me, is the exposure to a new generation of music. I have to admit I have gotten tired of the artists from my youth and young adulthood so hearing and learning this next generation of artists has been…
There is a big difference in sacrificing for something with a near guarantee of return versus taking a big risk and reaping the rewards. In the first case you are almost always just paying your dues into a system and in the second case nobody knows if it’ll work out…
I have to admit I thought that I wrote about “The Great Reset Switch” in my blog already. Apparently I was mistaken and I have only written about it in the first draft of my book. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but…
Mr. Spock is a character from the Star Trek franchise who is an alien. His world’s culture is based upon eliminating emotions and making all decisions through pure logic. The older I get the more I see that emotional decision making is generally bad. Logical decision making is typically good…
In the first part of this two part article series, we looked at the horizon of short term versus long term on the aspects of work and life that I think are more closely aligned to work. We discussed education where short term vs long term considerations looked like getting…
Mike Peluso
Mike Peluso writes is about the collision between the professional world and life. Read more at www.pelusopresents.com or listen to the Peluso Presents Podcast
