Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

Most people do not see their words as power.

History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.

...with electronic communication, what one writes in a moment, eternity will not erase.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

You are the adventurer of your life so try hard to find the diamond in your heart.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.