Marketing authentically and speaking to the importance of personal well-being in our businesses.

More on The Lorax and the Once-ler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax

When we pour a little bit of ourselves into the world, and then we pump, we get water. But a dry pump yields nothing.

Mike Sowden's "Everything is Beautiful" Substack can be found here:

https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/

What if everybody had "I will not take it out on others" on their top priority list?

Quiet Quitting isn't really quitting at all. And if employers treated employees with dignity, we wouldn't be talking about it.

An article from In These Times on the Fed, interest rates, and how the Fed's response to inflation is "highly likely to involve some pain."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/federal-reserve-workers-pay-biden-inflation-corporations-profits-wages

We are made to be interconnected. We are made to rely on each other, which means we need other people around us. We fall down when we become too reliant on our individualism because being an individual is like being a table with only one leg.

Get to the finish line and find that dopamine! Intensives, the 80% Problem, and deliberately finding things that we can do well and to completion in order to build trust in our own abilities to change the world.

Classified documents in Mar-a-Lago and the way that individual decisions about self-preservation can do large harm; and a path towards decision making that makes space for the humanity of those who will be affected by our choices.

Links:

An NPR story regarding the photography of classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago.

Wikipedia article about Tank Man and CNN footage of most, but not all, of the encounter (this video was chosen because of the available options it contains the original ambient audio, even though it does not show the end of the encounter when the man was rushed out of the road by other people.) Content Warning for threats of violence and gunshot sounds in the background.

Wikipedia article about Arthur Miller's play The Crucible

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