“Failure is not the end of the road, failure is the road to development.”
Source: L'humain Impossible: Cent Sonnets pour Ma Famille Mondiale
“To the corpse, in general, the distinction between manslaughter and murder is likely irrelevant.”
Source: The Workplace Zombie: One Bureaucrat’s Path to Better Understanding the Virus and Its Vectors
“The Mist of Mismanagement is similar to Clausewitz’s fog of war. Uncertainty impedes situational awareness, but unlike the fog of war, the mist is self-inflicted. It unnecessarily disrupts communication, engagement, and unity of action leading to organizational failures.”
Source: The Workplace Zombie: One Bureaucrat’s Path to Better Understanding the Virus and Its Vectors
“Organizational Fibrillation [OF]: Frenetic, irregular, or unsynchronized activity, further characterized by its unproductive nature, resulting from disorganized signals and erratic impulses, ending with the collapse of the organization’s ability to operate efficiently or effectively, absent an intervention.”
Source: The Workplace Zombie: One Bureaucrat’s Path to Better Understanding the Virus and Its Vectors
“Nostril-Damus is a seer, predicting organizational outcomes through the detection of BS, much like an ancient hunter sniffing scat, and interpreting the ‘droppings’ of management.”
Source: The Workplace Zombie: One Bureaucrat’s Path to Better Understanding the Virus and Its Vectors
“And then they were left looking at each other like a husband and wife with very few secrets left between them.”
“Work has shifted from a noun (somewhere we go) to a verb (something we do).”
Source: Work for What's Next: Why Workplace Culture is Failing and How the Next Generation Can Fix It
“The thing is, I don't really have any coming-out narratives of my own. I never felt as though anyone was entitles to a red-carpet presentation of who I am and how I identify. When I initially found myself attracted to women in college, for example, I simply showed up at the next family function with my first girlfriend in tow and introduced her as such. I didn't call each family member ahead of time and instruct them to brace themselves, nor did I write lengthy letters detailing the intricacies of my new desires. Likewise, when I'm meeting people for the first time at parties or other social engagements and they post the inevitable, "So what do you do?" I respond as routinely as possible: "Oh, I work in the sex industry. You?"
I'm not trying to be provocative; rather, I've always believed that being "out" is the most powerful tool of activism available to disadvantaged minority communities, sex workers included, I find that when you approach a supposedly radical issue (queerness, nonmonogamy, atheism, gender nonconformity) with the same nonchalance as you would a less controversial topic (accounting, marriage, the weather), you give the other party permission to treat it with the same accepting ambivalence. We're pack animals, and we're constantly comparing ourselves to one another. We look for approval from our peers, and in many cases we use their reactions and opinions to help guide our own. I often observe people, who I've just disclosed to, pause to shift their eyes and gauge the receptiveness of those around them before responding. It'd be a fascinating study if it weren't so disheartening.”
Source: Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy
“When the dust settles, kids respect the kids who dare to say no to things they don't want to do.”
Source: Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure
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