The HR Philosopher

A small sample of books that have shaped who I’ve become and will become. “The right book at the right time is a powerful thing.” - Ryan Holliday  Reading has always been more than a hobby for me; it has been a form of self-discovery, of self-leadership. While I’ve read thousands of books over myContinue reading "Philosophy Books That Have Sharpened My Mind, Body, and Soul"

“What injures the hive injures the bee.” — Marcus Aurelius This article is written for men. I welcome and want women to read this piece, too, of course, but they mostly know what I am about to discuss. They experience a life every single man cannot experience. It is men who need to hear myContinue reading "Stoicism Is Not a Refuge for Misogyny: Masculinity Is Having Moral Courage"

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” – Heraclitus This is a story of how I changed. How I could have been part of MAGA, but somehow along the way, I took another route in life. Before I dig in tooContinue reading "People Can Change, If They Want To"

Photo by Benni Fish on Pexels.com "I am not a self-made man. You understand that you are here because of a lot of help then you also understand that now is time to help others.’” – Arnold Schwarzenegger Martin Luther King, Jr. doesn’t need me to write about him. So, I won’t. I’ve actually writtenContinue reading "The Hivemind"

“Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.” — Often attributed to Miguel de Unamuno I’m not going to pretend that 2025 was normal. It wasn’t. These are not normal times (if any such thing as ever really existed). DO NOT let ANYONE convince you that any of what is happening isContinue reading "My Top Books I Read in 2025"

When will this nightmare be over? Tell meWhen can I empty my head?Will someone tell me the answer?Is God really dead? -- God Is Dead?, Black Sabbath, 2013 SHRM has been hit with wave after wave of bad news lately with the recent news crescendo of them having been hit with an $11.5 million verdictContinue reading "SHRM Is Dead: Nietzsche, HR, and the Rebirth That Follows Ruin"

“I am bound to do good to my fellow-creatures and bear with them.” – Marcus Aurelius  “Never regret being a good person, to the wrong people. Your behavior says everything about you and their behavior says enough about them.” – Bruce Lee I’ve been wrestling with a personal and moral dilemma: Whether or not toContinue reading "On the Fence: Should I Stay or Should I Go?"

“I have found that, to make a contended slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.” – Frederick Douglass A recent post on Medium titled “White People Do Not Know History, They Only Know Mythology” caught my eye. I have little doubt that Americans by and large know very little of this country’s actualContinue reading "Getting American History Right"

“I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped onContinue reading "SHRM, That Colossal Wreck"

Photo by ben gursky on Pexels.com “Conquer anger with non-anger; conquer badness with goodness; conquer meanness with generosity; conquer dishonesty with truth.” – Dhammapada, Verse 223 I’ve been broken. Over the past year, I’ve slowly lost myself. The world was turning me bitter, angry, hateful. Or, more accurately, I was allowing myself to turn meContinue reading "I’ve Been Broken: Fixing Myself Through The HR Philosopher Manifesto"