first things first

Sam’s Essays

• ▼Personal Control
  • A Bull Rider's Life, Part 1 of 2
  • A Bull Rider's Life, Part 2 of 2
  • Caffeine, Part 1 of 3: Scratching the Itch
  • Caffeine, Part 2 of 3: Life Cold Turkey
  • Caffeine, Part 3 of 3: How to Quit
  • Learning How to Sleep
  • Measure Your Chassis
  • My Favorite Thing to Do
  • Reactionary
  • Rewire Your Brain
  • The Yearning
  • We're Not Building a Clock!
  • Your Relentless System Improvement
• ▼Business Control
  • Communication for the New Mobile Lifestyle
  • Drug Testing, Part 1 of 2: Why We Drug Test
  • Drug Testing, Part 2 of 2: How We Drug Test
  • Finding Great Employees, Part 1 of 2: The Ten Hoops
  • Finding Great Employees, Part 2 of 2: The Ten Hoops
  • First You Must See. Then You Can Act
  • My Favorite Thing to Do
  • Product Before Process
  • System Improvement
  • The Dispassionate Machine that has a Purpose
  • The Simple Tools of Control
  • We're Not Building a Clock!
  • Your Relentless System Improvement
• ►Social Observations
  • A Questionable Method of Finding Peace
  • Deflation, Inflation and the Beast I Won’t Buy
  • Everybody's Talkin'
  • I Was There: The System (and Sub-systems) of Woodstock
  • Interview With a Capitalist
  • Parenting is a Job: The Systems Mindset Dissection
  • Rank is Nothing; Talent is Everything
  • Socialism & Capitalism: The Systems Mindset Dissection
  • The Defeat of Malaise
  • The Perfect Business
• ►Getting It
  • Choose the Red Pill
  • Finding Freedom: A Chat with David and Seth
  • It’s Always About Control
  • Music is the Ultimate System
  • Observing the Family System
  • The Fabric of Our Lives
  • The Gates are Open
  • The Systems Mindset: Q&A, Part One
  • The Systems Mindset: Q&A, Part Two
  • The Yearning
  • Working the System: Learning to Take the Mechanical Perspective
  • Your Intuitive Leap is Imminent