Steve Stockdale

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″]

A Tutorial

How well do you integrate … what goes in ‘here’ with what goes on ‘out there’? When we talk about wanting to become better critical thinkers, or more discriminating individuals, or simply more sane human beings, what we’re talking about concerns questions such as: How well do we ‘interface’ with the world around us? How … Read more

Become the Webmaster of Your Own Domain

Fall 2003 Every day we see evidence that web-based technology can be used by everyday people  to document your family’s genealogy, display photo albums for distant relatives, host a discussion board on a favorite hobby or topic, manage a youth soccer team, show off your collection of stamps or coins, or publish your own writings. … Read more

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