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…
Every conversation is communication. It’s also beneficial to think of communication as a conversation. Why? Because relationships, which grow from communication, are really just collections of conversations. Conversation and its importance to communication is an idea needs to be grasped in at…
Communication | Good Communication | Relationships
One of things that many people fail to realize about communication is that it’s not just about you. It’s not just about you getting your message across. It’s about the other person too. They get a say. They are part of the process. If you want to communicate well, you have…
"What do you mean?": The Innerworkings of Intentionality
Concept of Com | Ontology
People put a great deal of belief into “intent” when it comes to messages and communication. We like to think that our intended meaning matters. It’s comforting, right? But what if there is no there, there? What if our intended meaning doesn’t actually matter much at all? How…
“Zoom is just not the same. It never will be.” said Miss Alissa in our end-of-year parent-teacher conference. She’s right. Zoom calls, now everywhere thanks to the COVID pandemic, aren’t the same as communicating together with other people in shared physical space. Early 2020…
