Friends, subscribers, fellow humans, We’ve reached a pause. One year. What a year. I came up with this idea for sharing weekly content in late summer/early fall of 2019. I didn’t see anyone talking about communication as I was envisioning and I was looking for an outlet. I wanted to write…
Effective communication. Everyone talks about and seems to be after it. But what is it? What is effective communication? What does it mean to communicate effectively? Do we really know? Ask 100 people what “effective communication” is, and you'll get many different answers. It’s…
Do you ever struggle to know whether to text, email, or call? Do type out texts and delete? Have you ever hit send and then immediately regretted it? Have you ever decided to set up a phone call because talking is easier than writing? Or maybe you’ve felt disheartened to be physically separate…
Communications and communication are different things. No S refers to human processes of producing and interpreting meaning. This process is dynamic, always symbolic and referential, and fundamentally experiential all the way down to the individual level. With the S are other amazing things…
Transparency is a god-term. People want it. Calls for it are everywhere. “I’m aiming to be transparent here,” you might hear in everyday conversation. Transparency is supposedly one of the great communication achievements. Or so we tell ourselves. People widely accept the idea that…
