Jim Murray

On the Count of Three, Throw Out Your New Year’s Resolution—Go GLOCO!

I can’t recall ever making a New Year’s resolution. It’s not because I don’t have good follow-through to making promises–in fact I do. But New Year’s resolutions seem so contrived, doomed to failure as reality sets in, as unforeseen events hit us out of no-where, or as we change ...

Statistical Thinking

It is difficult enough to be bamboozled by statistics and left empty headed by statistical process, without realizing that the real value of statistics is to think statistically.   Before I can even begin to think mathematically, I need to pursue how it is I am going to learn how ...

Why Every Human Being On This Planet Should Be Angry These Days

Sunday, we witnessed another horrendous chapter in the systematic and relentless undoing of America. It took me a long time to process how something like this is still being allowed to happen. But this country, like many others these days, which politicizes everything and lear ...

On The Other Side Of Your Fear

I am weary. · I am worn down by my own human desire to be aware of what’s going on. · I have had my brain fractured by stainless steel paradoxes, lie after lie after lie playing out on a 50 million watt lit stage until nobody, including me, knows what to believe anymore. · Everyw ...

Op Ed

The Secret to Getting Support for Your Projects

This took me a long time to learn. · Hopefully this will help you learn it quicker than I did. · Perhaps an object lesson will speed it up even more. · Go outside and find a very small rock. · Something gnat sized. · Now remove one of your shoes and insert the tiny rock into your ...