defense Archives

Out maneuver Yourself

December 21, 2022 December 23, 2022 / defense, insight, perspective, planning / 1 minute of reading

Our ability to forecast motivations leads us to form expectations. Conforming to our predictions, we extrapolate seemingly rational actions or …

December 2, 2022 December 2, 2022 / defense, reputation, social media / 1 minute of reading

To consider your online reputation as worth defending only encourages others to take perverse pleasure in denigrating it. This is …

August 16, 2022 August 16, 2022 / belief, defense, nothing / 1 minute of reading

Our lives are shaped around organizing principles. When our structure is attacked, we either lift the drawbridge or reign fire …

May 31, 2022 May 28, 2022 / acceptance, defense, ego / 1 minute of reading

Why would you ever defend yourself? To explain enriches a narrative, both revealing and contextualizing, but when justifying one assumes …

March 14, 2022 March 13, 2022 / defense, insight, offense, perspective, protection / 1 minute of reading

Don’t be offended. You are never "right." Neither is the other person. You are both vying for supremacy and demanding …

February 27, 2022 February 23, 2022 / awareness, defense, insight / 1 minute of reading

Any probing question forcing a reconsideration of self is indeed triggering, but why do we hide, victimize, or lash out …

February 16, 2022 November 25, 2022 / closed, defense, open, platforms, systems / 1 minute of reading

A commonality of Amazon, Google, and Facebook is that they began not as defensive structures but as open structures. The …