Tag: education
-
From Stage Fright to Sage Light: A Taoist Journey in Public Speaking and Business Continuity
Last month, I received an unexpected email: an invitation to guest-lecture on disaster recovery and business continuity planning at a local university. The audience? Nearly one hundred students, bright-eyed and notebook-ready. My first reaction wasn’t excitement. It was anxiety. I’ve faced ransomware, nation-state intrusions, and zero-days that kept me up for nights. But public speaking?…
-
Who Learns More: The Student or the Teacher?
In the dance of knowledge, who truly gains more—the one who receives or the one who gives? From a Taoist lens, this question dissolves into the flow of the Tao itself, where teaching and learning are not separate but intertwined, like the yin and yang. Drawing from the Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, and modern…
The Half-assed Taoist 