Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World
Effective habits for turbulent times #5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of...
Living on the Real World
Effective habits for turbulent times. #4. Think win-win.
“No man is an island…, entire of itself; …any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and...
Living on the Real World
Effective habits for turbulent times. #3. Put first things first.
Let’s review. Are you living on the real world? Do you want to make that life – your life –...
Living on the Real World
Effective habits for turbulent times. #2. Begin with the end in mind.
(Continuing the seven-part LOTRW mini-series) “What do you want to be when you grow up?” (we all remember this question...
Living on the Real World
Effective habits for turbulent times. #1. Be proactive.
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi[1] In the face of today’s national turmoil...
Living on the Real World
Additional perspective on oral history in the geosciences.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” – Stephen Covey...
Living on the Real World
Who Tells your story? Reflections on oral history in the geosciences. Part 2.
Let me tell you what I wish I’d knownWhen I was young and dreamed of gloryYou have no controlWho lives,...
Living on the Real World
Reflections on oral history in the geosciences (with a NOAA/AMS terroir). Part 1.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear: Full many a flow’r is...
Living on the Real World
Fire and Ice: a forecast for the end of the world – and sometimes, for the same-day’s national weather.
Leave it to the poet Robert Frost, writing more than a century ago, to capture in 9 short lines and...
Living on the Real World
The Indonesia tsunami of December 26, 2004
On this day, twenty years ago, Indonesia (and much of southeast Asia) experienced a catastrophic tsunami. The physical impacts extended...
