Dave is a professional coach and a volunteer advocate for international liberty and international animal welfare.


Leadership Week in Review: Nov. 27–Dec. 3, 2022

December 5, 2022

The following are resources I shared on social media in the past week, with the accompanying quotations and my observations.

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Leadership Week in Review: Nov. 20–26, 2022

November 28, 2022

“The following are resources I shared on social media in the past week, with the accompanying quotations.”

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“Right?” Is Not All Right

November 13, 2022

“The problem is the routine deployment of the rhetorical question ‘right?’, often concluding or following almost every sentence.”

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Haiku: Election Madness

November 12, 2022

Election frenzy. Crowd, oblivious, submits, Demanding rulers.  

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Presentation to South Asia Students for Liberty: Leadership and Liberty

October 4, 2022

“It was a pleasure to make a presentation to coordinators of South Asia Students for Liberty via Zoom on September 23, 2022.”

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Welcome Immigrants (Archived from LinkedIn. Published Sept. 15, 2022)

September 26, 2022

  When U.S. governors ship immigrants out of their states, exploiting them, in the same manner as federal politicians, for political advantage, they treat them as trash to be removed rather than human beings in search of better lives. Compassion, morality, and benevolence all call for welcoming immigrants. Consider the parable of the good Samaritan […]

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Crisis Calls for Strong Leadership (Archived from LinkedIn. Published April 6, 2020)

September 26, 2022

    Leadership is service. How will you serve in a time of crisis? Circumstances I am among those who have called for freedom rather than government intervention in dealing with the pandemic. Free people respond to problems and solve them. Government serves itself and special interests, exploiting fear, stealing freedom, and usually making problems […]

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I Survived, Part VIII of X: Life as a Survivor, Life with a Survivor

June 18, 2018

“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life.”   — Viktor Frankl Part I opens with the quotation, “Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.” Startling and ominous, suitable for what follows. But it offers […]

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I Survived, Part VII of X: After

December 24, 2017

“And a time to heal.”     — Ecclesiastes 3:3 The night the police arrested the first two suspects was one of the best nights of my life. The day in Charlottesville, seeing justice done, was one of the best days. Not every crime is solved. Not every criminal is caught. Not every prosecution is successful. […]

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I Survived, Part VI of X: Let Justice Be Done

December 15, 2017

“[F]or whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”      — Galatians 6:7 I had my last day of the coaching training in Boston on Sunday, July 23rd. I got home that night about 9:00 p.m., happy to be with the cats. I had to leave the next afternoon for the trip to […]

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