Staring back at the abyss: The need for depressed leaders

So much of America’s culture, bathed in capitalism as it is, is about selling ideas. Corporate advertisements depict smiling, laughing, jubilant people enjoying the newest product on sale, enticing us to spend our money so that, we, too, might be smiling, laughing, and jubilant. We are so oversaturated with this kind of messaging – be […]

Billy Napier and the danger of self-deception

In the 12 years I’ve been writing in this space, I don’t think I’ve ever written about sports. But sometimes sports can provide metaphors for us to learn about much larger issues in life, and I think such is the case with my alma mater’s head football coach, the University of Florida’s Billy Napier. Terribly […]