Do NOT beat around the bush. Lessons from “Tiger” Mike Davis
10 years ago someone showed me a set of memos from “Tiger Mike” Davis, owner of Tiger Oil Company. I loved them immediately. I share a lot of business philosophy with Mr. Davis. Recently I was reminded of these memos and looked them up on the interwebs and in doing I found that Mr. Davis …
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A report from corporate America
This was just sent to me from a friend who works at a Giant company. Those who can’t compete change the rules so they can. My friend, and you dear reader, should head for the exits. If you don’t bow and become an “Ally” of the kind of underwear they like or the way they …
The Academy, A Modest Proposal
I often attend the meetings of a group we call “Three Seventeen.” It’s a group that meets at a friend’s restaurant at 3:17pm each Sunday. We talk about everything. What follows is an essay I wrote in 2018 for discussion in that group. We believe that rational education is the underpinning of human well-being. Humans, …
Logic 2, The First Law, the Law of Identity
In part one of this series, I described a very few of Aristotle’s axioms. He believed that understanding a few primary things about being would allow us to build valid arguments and reasoning for everything that followed, which he called the posterior. To summarize that first part, “being is.” Aristotle ran into people who disagree. …
H.E. Barnes “On Facts.”
Here’s a little quote from a book about WWI that has been “memory-holed.” Facts themselves, and the interpretations which justly grow out of such facts, can never be too extreme, no matter how far they depart from popular convictions in the premises. “The Genesis of the World War,” by Harry Elmer Barnes, pub. Alfred A. …