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Atomic Essays | Mini Essays | Diverse Ideas | Digital Garden Mostly Fiction... & Nonfiction Welcome to my creative space! Here, I write to explore my voice, experiment with ideas, and help others navigate life's challenges. This blog also serves as a workshop for two books I'm working on: a novel and a nonfiction project. I use the following to organize and develop my work: - StandardNotes to gather ideas to research to write - Manuskript an open source software - perfect tool to organize and plan everything before writing - thequill.app, a bank-level encryption author writing tool - 100x easier than Scrivener - - - A Personal Blog (Economy & Politics, Culture, Technology) The views shared here are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of my employer or any organizations I am affiliated with. My perspectives may evolve over time as I strive to maintain an open mind. This blog offers a snapshot of my thoughts at specific moments, capturing ideas that resonated with me then. Please note that some older posts may no longer align with my current views. - - -

Power of Police in Schools

February 21, 2025•492 words

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "If someone puts their hands on you...

How Educators, Coaches, and Arts Instructors Can Transform the Lives of At-Risk Youth

February 20, 2025•921 words

"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you." ~ Bob Proctor "I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it." ~ Oprah Winfrey "A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself." ~ Oprah Winfrey The criminal system has never re...

Designed for Disparity: The Racial Inequities of Canada's Youth Justice System

February 19, 2025•832 words

"I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control." ~ Q'orianka Kilcher "Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system." ~ Dirk Kempthorne "My first two books, Letters t...

The Power of Coachability In Sports

February 18, 2025•562 words

"Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth" ~ Doc Rivers "Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you" ~ Doc Rivers "I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots" ~ Doc Rivers "If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time beca...

American and Canadian Fight on the Ice

February 17, 2025•317 words

"The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in World War II, in Korea, in the Balkans, where we were involved in offensive military operations, and in Afghanistan, where we have made disproportionate contributions." ~ Chris Alexander Canadian-American relations for many years did not develop spontaneously. The example of accord provided by our two countries did not come about merely through the happy circumstance of ...

Adaptability—Flexibility

February 16, 2025•952 words

"You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to." ~ Gary Hamel "The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed." ~ Ajahn Sumedho "Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment." ~ Marvin J. Ashton "A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to...

How the Criminal Justice System Works Against Women of Colour

February 16, 2025•884 words

"The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws." ~ Ben Whishaw "I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten." ~ Henry Louis Gates "Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the c...

Resisting Political Coercion: 51st State Rhetoric Narrative

February 14, 2025•756 words

I'd want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of America. ~ Ricky Rossello I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state. ~ Irvine Welsh "The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests." ~ Charley Reese "The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward t...

From Favoritism to Failure: How Coaching Decisions Weaken Teams

February 13, 2025•688 words

"Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment." ~ Zig Ziglar "Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment." ~ Vince Lombardi "Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential." ~ Denis Waitley "It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity." ~ Roy H. Williams "Individual commitment to a group effort - that is...

Just Play Basketball, Don't Overthink Anything, Just Relax & Create A Rhythm & A Flow

February 12, 2025•591 words

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way. ~ Adam Yauch Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own. ~ Pat Riley I try to play within the flow of the team's offense. ~ Paul Pierce Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you ru...

Sweat & Effort vs Overthinking & Less Effort

February 12, 2025•569 words

"Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." ~ John F. Kennedy "We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort." ~ Jesse Owens "Overthinking is often a product of underdoing." ~ Yehuda Berg "Sometimes you're overthinking, you convince yourself to get out of it and you're like, "Ah I shoulda did that!" You can't live life with regrets. Sometimes you just gotta indulge. But...

The Legacy Strategy of Dominance

February 10, 2025•484 words

"State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain." ~ Ian Bremmer "Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area." ~ Janeane Garofalo "Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by a...

The Strategy of Unchecked Authority: The Strongman’s Second Act

February 9, 2025•421 words

"The strong man is strongest when alone." ~ Friedrich Schiller "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." ~ Ernest Hemingway "It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man." ~ Elbert Hubbard "Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer An uncontested leader, of course, will have a strongman me...

A Strategy of Disruption: A Master of Chaos

February 8, 2025•346 words

"Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky "It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own." ~ Joyce Carol Oates "Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought."...

The Strategy of Military Presence: The Shield and the Spear?

February 7, 2025•393 words

"The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here, but we have had a globe-straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hatred and resentment toward us." ~ Ron Paul "The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hosti...

The Strategy of Economic Warfare: The Invisible Sword of Donald Trump

February 6, 2025•248 words

The combat of WAR and an economic WAR have a lot of similarities. You do have to be skilled, aggressive, know your enemy and your strong attributes and limitations. Both skills are needed although one may be more natural. ~ Richard Marcinko To me, the economic war with China is everything. And we have to be maniacally focused on that. If we continue to lose it, we're five years away, I think, ten years at the most, of hitting an inflection point from which we'll never be able to recover. ~ Ste...

The Strategy of Expansion: A Conqueror’s Mindset - Trump vs Canada

February 5, 2025•210 words

"American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel." ~ Tariq Ali "We are not anti-American. We do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking." ~ Tommy Dougla...

Canada’s Domestic War On Drugs Before A Tariff Trade War For Canadian Sovereignty

February 4, 2025•600 words

"The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!" ~ Jerry Brown "Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system." ~ Larry Elder "Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government." ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Prime Minister has revealed his $1.3 ...

The Oversocialization Game

February 3, 2025•421 words

"Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life." ~ John Dewey "On the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort of identification thing going on nowadays because it's a very fractious time. We live in a time of troubles."...

Fentanyl - China, Mexico, USA, Canada & Narco Leaders CJNG, Hells Angels, Triads and Others

February 3, 2025•646 words

"See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true." ~ Milton Friedman "The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government." ~ William Colby "I love the people. I really like this administration [of Enrique Peña Nieto]. I think he's a good man. We get along very...

The American Trump Dictatorship of 25% Tariffs

February 1, 2025•220 words

"Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity." ~ Walter Block "Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is bei...

The Trump American Economic Apex Aggression Against Canada

January 31, 2025•928 words

Canadians and Americans are extremely close in regards to migration, immigration, history, multicultural, sociopolitically, and linguistically. Every year, there are over 11 million Americans that travel to Canada to visit friends and family. And, every year there are over 13 million Canadians that travel to the USA to visit family and friends. There are approximately 1 million Canadians that live in the USA. And, there are approximately 1 million Americans that live in Canada. The apex agg...

Consistent Practice, Improvement, and Results For Thousands of Hours and Multiple Years

January 30, 2025•462 words

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved. ~ Bill Russell The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play. ~ Bill Russell Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered. ~ Bill Russell "Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit...

Economic Sabotage Of Nord Stream Was A Game-changer

January 29, 2025•462 words

We encourage others to find a local Earth raper and make them pay for the damages they are inflicting on our communities... Furriers, meat packers, bosses, developers, rich industry leaders are all Earth rapers . We must inflict economic sabotage on all Earth rapers. ~ Craig Rosebraugh Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead econom...

Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage

January 28, 2025•338 words

"Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center." ~ Anatol Rapoport "The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration ...

Expertise: Apprentice or Online Courses or College—University

January 27, 2025•465 words

"True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes." ~ Daniel Kahneman "Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman." ~ Seth Godin "Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen." ~ Malcolm Gladwell "The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways." ~ Robert Greene "Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and...

Natural Strategic Mindset Edge

January 26, 2025•380 words

"Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously" ~ Michael Porter "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." ~ Winston Churchill "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interes...

Negative Cues From A Person In Authority

January 26, 2025•355 words

You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses. ~ Sanford Meisner Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all. ~ Edward Sapir When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior ...

Someone Who Is Sarcastic—They See You, How You Are, Your True Nature

January 24, 2025•300 words

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery." ~ Benjamin Franklin "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit." ~ Oscar Wilde "A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility." ~ Lawrence G. Lovasik "Sarcasm is the protest of the weak." ~ John Knowles "Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it." ~ Thomas Carlyle "Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest...

Going Against The Grain Politically, Historically, Economically, & Culturally

January 23, 2025•255 words

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. ~ Elijah Wood To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. ~ Dejan Stojanovic I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge. ~ Wyclef Jean The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. ~ John Updike You must realize that to swim upstream, to go against the tide is a risky but fascinating game, one of...