There’s a hilarious story from Marc Maron’s Thinky Pain special, where Maron recalls doing a show with Bill Hicks. He says that he asked Hicks if he could perform first on the show, but Hicks wanted to go first. While the late comedy great got on stage, Maron went to the bathroom. When he returned, the room was silent with “a suction to it.” Maron said that Hicks was at the front of the stage “screaming” at a woman in the audience.

Unexpected time to write today… (I wrote a post about Product-Reality Fit yesterday). Have you ever been in a discussion about the definition of a problem and found the whole conversation going in circles? You're not alone. Talking about problems is problematic. Consider something as simple (it is not simple) as the distinction between “a problem” and “the problem”. (Caveat, this post will seem basic for people skilled in RCA, safety science, incident analysis, human factors, etc.

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One of the fun parts about getting older and persisting in the same general area of activity is connecting to others in the same field do the same, and seeing their careers progress. For me, one of those people is Teddy Wayne whose new novel The Winner will be available wherever books are sold starting this coming Tuesday. My first connection to Teddy came way back when I was editing the McSweeney’s website and he was one of the most frequent contributors.