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  “You know you are a writer when”: writing and coffee addiction jokesJanuary 4, 2021
  I am trying to locate an old joke but did not succeed. It goes something like (very roughly paraphrased): You haven’t slept for 24 hours. The room is spinning around you. You have enough caffeine in your blood to kill a horse. But you won’t stop what you are doing. […]
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  Marco’s 3 Noble TruthsJanuary 4, 2021
  [Note: this article is a continuation of How to talk to the voices inside your head]. The approach I am about to describe, attempts to make the very tricky balance between compassion (empathy) and wisdom (or discernment, accurate and sober self-perspective, ultimately emotional intelligence). I would call this approach, simply […]
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  How to talk to the voices inside your headDecember 31, 2020
  We all have them. For some of us, it’s a single insistent voice. For others its more of a cacophony of voices, rising and falling according to the flow of the day and whatever perceived “success”, or lack thereof, we are having in the moment. Some of the voices are […]
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  Best new & classic movies, documentaries and TV series of 2020December 30, 2020
  Despite the tragic scarcity of parties and the sad state of dating, there is some good news: I have noticed a sharp uptick in the quality of television this year. Here is a list of my lifetime  favorites. I especially like documentaries, given my desire to learn something in the […]
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  The year 2020 in review (oy vey…)December 28, 2020
  I have been silent on this list for so long, I don’t even know where to start. I left Asheville in October and hit the road in my new outfitted truck, named “Bubble”. How that came about is its own story; but two factors weighed in heavily: first, after Covid […]
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  Relational Leadership, Part 2: How I learned to be less of an asshole.December 21, 2020
  In part 1 of this article, What is Relational Leadership, I shared some ideas about the nature of emotional intelligence. In this part 2, I get more personal, of how I discovered the Authentic Relating movement and what happened to me there. It’s an embarrassing story. It’s quite a long […]
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  What is Relational Leadership? (some embarrassing reveals)December 21, 2020
  This is a very personal article, especially in part 2 where I speak of my own failings (you can skip to the juicy parts directly in Relational Leadership, Part 2: How I learned to be less of an asshole). I hope to illustrate my belief, that most of us learn […]
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  How to learn chess by playing your phone against your computer (with Arena and Stockfish)December 19, 2020
  I have discovered a new addiction (oy vey — just what I needed 🙂 ): playing chess against my phone. But since I have no chance at all on a new game against my phone (I believe even phones play grandmaster level these days — yikes), what I do is […]

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