Category Archives: Head Checks

Sample of my 2021 letters to many pledging attention$ to Black Plight: Good morning, Ben https://www.wsj.com/articles/goldman-sachs-unveils-10-billion-push-to-invest-in-black-women-11615394850 Thank you for this short but informative piece on GS, JP Morgan, Bank of America and Citigroup’s paper-pledges to begin righting some systemic injustices they perpetuated against the Black communities in the United States. Not only have I writtenContinue reading “Follow-Throughs?”

“Having a why to live for – if you have a why you can overcome any HOW.” Nietzsche says this and this is one of the main tenets of Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy. Here’s a funny little story: I was in Zagreb, Croatia about a year and two months ago, maybe mid-August late August 2021 andContinue reading “Head Check #13 Martha Cooper | Do What You Love | Keep the End in Mind | Challenge Thyself – Nietzsche and Bradbury”

Continue doing exactly what you’ve been doing: No breaks, no regrets until absolutely necessary. We’re going to keep that accelerator pressed to the floor. So that brief five-minute scare of like oh shiiiiiiiiiiit – I might need to go home to get medical care and then, you know, rationale stepped in logic something – heyContinue reading “Frankl’s Logotherapy On CRACK”

Dateline: Sept. 2022 I just interviewed Portuguese Director, Catarina de Sousa (partnered with Nick Tyson) whose 27-min brilliant Short, “Tracing Utopia” aka “Em Todos os Tipos de Clima” about NY LGBTQ students having Safe Places before, during (and after) Da Ronas Pandemic. This was one of 118 films representing 31 countries playing here in PortoContinue reading “Porto Femme International Film Fest 2022”

While in Istanbul, one of my first hostels since Kenya, I had the pleasure of meeting approximately seven fascinating people. Some would not like being recorded speaking their truths, others were too busy or simply chance conversations that happen in crowded, noisy bars or clubs of other chaotic cityscapes. Here’s Mo-Morocco, a young Graphics DesignerContinue reading “Moroccan Mo on Crytos and Hosteling”