Greetings Reader, Back in 1990-something, I was working for a digital video systems manufacturer. My job was to demonstrate their products at trade shows and to train end-users how to operate them. There was a lot of travel involved: to the company’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, to trade shows in Las Vegas and Amsterdam, and to cities large and small whenever a local broadcaster purchased a motion graphics system or title effects generator. On one occasion, the head of marketing told me I...

Hi Reader, I'm writing to let you know about my next live online workshop: Beyond Belief: Yoga Wisdom for Discerning Truth from FalsehoodSaturday, October 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT TUITION: $27 The workshop will be recorded — a replay link will be emailed to all registrants. Yoga teachers can receive 1.5 hours of continuing education credit with Yoga Alliance. → CLICK HERE TO ENROLL We have access to more information than ever before—and more exposure to sophisticated attempts to manipulate...

Greetings Reader, I recently heard former late night television star Stephen Colbert describe his erstwhile gig as the equivalent of “being lowered like carbon rods into a radioactive pool every day, and then being pulled out and put in front of a camera to radiate it back out at the audience at a non-lethal rad level.” Sometimes I feel like I could say the same thing about my current gig. On the one hand, I feel the need to know what’s going on in the world, both for myself and for the sake...