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Power Listening
We have to come up with some standards of what good listening is and bad listening is. When you listen using power listening, you are giving the other person both visual as well as auditory cues that you are listening to them. -
Community
Communities form around very small things; whether that thing is a single object, or game, or show, or even a collection of things. What ends up happening, over time, as people form this group around this one thing is that they start to form layers ar...
The Heart of Communication
1) You Don't Want to be Lonely - Loneliness is this inescapable sensation of singleness. Being with someone is the solution to your loneliness. Loneliness is that natural drive inside of us that tells us when we need to go outside into the world and ...
Primary Communications and the Disillusionment of Texting
The first thing I did when I got my iPhone 5 back in 2012 was make sure that it made the right noises. I expected to hear that little jingle whenever someone called me, and that boo-doo-deep of a text message.
The Destination
When I was little, my dad taught me how to read a map. We were on our way to Orlando for the ninth time and it was my duty to ride next to him in the cockpit of our motorhome as we blazed down the highway to see the world’s most famous mouse.
The Cargo
I personally have been made fun of by my friends for carrying so many things around in my backpack, but you never know when you’ll need a deck of Uno® cards or a book on cryptology. I carry multiple books, a bottle of Norwegian formula hand cream for m...
The Hull
You are what you eat. You are your job. You are what you believe. You are who others say you are. You are what you will be come. You are who you have been. You are your parents. You are the average of your friends. You are whatever you want to be.
The Sail
It is without a doubt the most visible part of a boat. It is the thing that, if you saw it from the shore and it was just on the horizon, you would use to identify just what it is that you are seeing. It stands tall, and it is wide,
The Rudder
What do these three things have in common: The steering wheel in any car, the handlebars of a tandem bicycle, and the steering wheel of a boat. Besides the fact that they are totally cool to look at and are all things that I have touched at least once ...
The Compass
It once was true that in order to understand the direction you were heading, you needed to know the story of the stars. Ursa Major. Ursa Minor. These two lead you to find the direction known as north and from there, with some careful steps,