"Hear that?"

I listened and didn't know what he meant.

"It's the HVAC system. It makes nine distinct annoying sounds."

Ninety percent of the medical doctors who have taken the Kairos Assessment appear in the Sequential preference. That's in comparison with almost 60 percent of the general population assessed as Sequential preferent.

Southern Florida contains a magically complex ecosystem known to most as The Everglades. The Oxford dictionary defines it as as a marshy tract of land that is mostly under water and covered with tall grass, which is a start, but hardly prepares one for its 2 million acres, big enough to soak the bottoms of five cities of Los Angeles, all without rising much more than 8 feet above sea level.

Ugh.

End of the year insurance policy review. The mail box had engorged thick envelopes of health insurance policy renewal for our businesses, a very long and detailed workers' compensation document, an even longer and more detailed business insurance document; plus documents for our personal health insurance and automobile insurance.

Let's start with a great thing about humans. For all our flaws, we have the ability to look at ourselves and make plans and decisions for improvement.

Having spent a lot of time in cities, I've been impressed by rats. Rats are extremely clever and resourceful. At the same time, I don't see them lounging around thinking,"How can I be a better rat today? I've been all about my needs; what do Francis and Susan need?"

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Jill Lepore, historian and essayist, wrote a piece that appeared in the New Yorker this week, titled The Artificial State. She is writing about the effects on our political discourse on "the digital manipulation of attention-mining algorithms" in the service of "minutely message-tested online engagement."

Hey Alexa! Send me satin pillows to cry on.

Fear and greed, folks. It's the toughest problem we humans have. I just decided not to even get started on the Garden of Eden.

When someone tells me they have a learning disability or a cognitive disorder, what that tells me is they find it hard to do things that are important to them.

Often a professional diagnostician has given a professional diagnosis. Sometimes they've identified with a published description of behaviors that have been assigned a name. While I know what all those names mean --I've been in the field my entire adult life -- they aren't helpful. While they may for some, accurately identify a problem: dyslexia for example, they are very loosely connected to the solution.

Our work at Kairos Cognition comes from our name: Kairos: the conditions for decisive action.

The Cognition part represents the forces our brain uses for decisive action.

For thirty years now, we've been exploring those kaleidoscopic forces in order to optimize our conditions for decisive action.

Last week, I promised, "You just have to go at something for ten years with consistency, correct practice, and metacognition. And you'll be surprised at what you can do after just three years."

I decided to look back at these posts. Robert and I started in January of 2017. Robert does the illustrations, I do the text. We made no promise of consistency. We promised some occasional pieces, and that's what we did.