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Understanding Your Boss: Workers' Guide to the People in Power and How to Survive the Office Wars

Understanding Your Boss: Workers' Guide to the People in Power and How to Survive the Office Wars

An insightful look at the world almost all of us inhabit: Work, the place we need, dread, build our identity around -- our best and worst on display.

2025

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Aug 3, 2021

Putting the Nickel In: Donn K. Harris

Stored up a lot in this old jukebox, a coupla coins may get you a few decades of stories

Putting the Nickel In: Donn K. Harris

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Apr 16, 2019

Clichés That Kill:

If we’re all thinking the same things and using the same uninspired unexamined language, then no one is thinking at all — and that’s…

Clichés That Kill:

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Apr 8, 2020

Burning Out, Fading Away in The Random Age

It’s not The Trumpian Epoch, or the Time of I-Thing, or the Techno-Dystopia Era — “Random” is the word of the decade for a reason.

Burning Out, Fading Away in The Random Age

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ILLUMINATION

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Sep 13, 2020

Mendacity: Desperately Creative America

Polar peoples have 58 words for snow. Americans have over 200 words for intoxication, and we’re still counting the many ways we…

Mendacity: Desperately Creative America

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Oct 25, 2020

9 Pieces of Wicked Wisdom

‘The Tyrants of the Appropriate’ and other evils in ‘Something Like The Truth’, Vol. 1 #2

9 Pieces of Wicked Wisdom

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Write Your World

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Jun 19

Writer’s Journey, Book Preview Updates: A Brutal Memoir Hijacked Its Way Into Turbulent Airspace

I was working on two, for a while three books simultaneously. A snippet of a story was given its own narrative and soon became the master…

Writer’s Journey, Book Preview Updates: A Brutal Memoir Hijacked Its Way Into Turbulent Airspace

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ILLUMINATION

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Donn Harris

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Jan 5

Celebrating Outliers and What They Bring

We buy into the social contract, and we know when someone isn't on board. We do rejection easily and quickly, and we're missing the beauty…

Celebrating Outliers and What They Bring

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ILLUMINATION

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Nov 28, 2025

Book Preview: Ticket to Heaven

I have been a skeptic about the afterlife yet lately it has begun to dominate my thoughts. We all walk this path from cradle to grave, but…

Book Preview: Ticket to Heaven

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No Place to Go

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Nov 9, 2025

40 Years and Still No Place to Go

We have spent billions, invested immeasurable units of psychic energy in considering the plight of the people we see on the street daily. A…

40 Years and Still No Place to Go

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Thinking Man’s Brutality

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Oct 28, 2025

The Sole Arbiter Part I

The dramatic decline of boxing referees' performances in big fights

smoky, dark space with a boxing ring in the middle

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Seeking Something Like the Truth: Paradigm Shifter; decidedly risk-friendly former CA Arts Council Chair; led SF, Oakland Arts schools; USAF vet; Father of 2

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