Category Archives: Ethics

[K+5: Remember]

Share At 5:10 AM on August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall on American soil near Buras, Louisiana, obliterating almost everything in its wake, from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. Five years later we’re still recovering. You’ve probably been inundated with Katrina memorials, specials, and documentaries this past week. The media (and many...

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K+5: What It Was All About…

Share I wrote the following very early in the nighttime morning of Saturday, August 27, 2005. It went live at 4:14 AM, about the time this post should go live, five years later. It was a lesson I needed to learn, a life-altering moment. Looking back on the events nobody saw coming, I see much...

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We Are All Agents of Change…

Share Every day we wake up and are immediately thrust into the world as agents of change. Everything we do impacts someone or something. The vast majority of us wake up and, whether we realize it or not, through our bitterness, jealousy, rage, and cruelty find ever-creative ways to transform the world for the worse....

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A Note from Our Sponsor (That’s Me)…

Share So here’s the deal. I came home from work tonight to find a new user subscribed (JOS). I googled the email address- JOHN@CHETKOE.TV- and read how he’s bad news. Spammer type. Luckily I had things set so all new users were subscribers. This guy got deleted. My password is changed, just in case. But...

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Simplifying Legal Jargon [TED Talk]…

Share Alan Siegel talks about simplifying legal jargon, from credit card agreements to IRS forms. Considering a 1000+ page health care bill was just signed into law, it seems this is a talk worth listening to. It’s about four and a half minutes. Take the time to watch it. Finally, something we can all agree...

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