Recollections of Alfred Korzybski

This video slider includes four interviews recorded by Charles Stade in the late 1980s. Posted here with Mr. Stade’s permission, they include: Ernie Klemme (16:14) Bernie Chalip (18:19) Dr. Bill Pemberton (18:19) S.I. Hayakawa (12:28) [metaslider id=”5164″]

How to size your thinking box

(Speaking Notes presented to the monthly luncheon of the National Management Association, Rockwell Collins Chapter, Richardson, TX (September 2000) In the mid-80s, I clipped a Gary Larsen “Far Side” cartoon that, at the time, reflected my disenchantment with my then-current management. The cartoon depicted a dinosaur addressing an auditorium of other dinosaurs: “The picture’s pretty … Read more

On Mindfulness

(Published in the Winter 1999-2000 edition of ETC: A Review of General Semantics.) If you’ve participated in any social discussions regarding general semantics — among folks who would admit to having actually read Korzybski — you’ve probably heard the inevitable sigh, ” (sigh) Somebody needs to re-write Science and Sanity in language that normal people … Read more