Live In The Time of Quarantine Come Together The incredible rightness of being — live-and-in-person. Have you seen it yet? The electrical current that seems to light the faces of an audience when they are reunited with their tribe after nearly two years of pandemic isolation? Broadway is reopening shows that were abruptly canceled in March of 2020 and audiences and performers alike […] Written by BPH October 14, 2021October 14, 2021
Live In The Time of Quarantine The Wisdom Ratio Solving for x in the new world order. I was thinking the other day about ‘mechanical advantage.’ It’s what we learned about in school as the way to measure the efficiency of such simple machines as levers and pulleys. If it took 100 pounds of pulling power to lift a 600-pound weight with a block […] Written by BPH October 8, 2021October 8, 2021
Posts You Won't Want to Miss Hitting Pause Sometimes in the race to what’s next we have to let the rest of the world catch up. Have you ever had this experience? You are fast-forwarding through a video to get to the “good part” when you unexpectedly catch a glimpse of something — something interesting, confusing, provoking — and you hit pause. Then, […] Written by BPH September 3, 2021September 3, 2021
Live In The Time of Quarantine Posts You Won't Want to Miss Let’s Do the Work We Love It’s not the vaccine — it’s what it enables. What would you do to keep doing the things you most love to do? I know people who drive past all the nearby BBQ joints to get to the one that gets the sauce just right. Or who pay more for products that don’t exploit workers […] Written by BPH August 19, 2021August 19, 2021
Live In The Time of Quarantine Unexpressed Expectations = Planned Resentment Recovery begins with a realistic recalibration. There’s a psychological phenomenon that I refer to as “unexpressed expectations = planned resentment.” In all walks of life — social, business, family, recreational — people are disappointed, become angry, and are sometimes disillusioned because an outcome falls short of their hopes and dreams. And they don’t connect their resentment with […] Written by BPH July 28, 2021July 28, 2021
Posts You Won't Want to Miss The Next Big Thing Isn’t Hybrid events are a transition to something better. During the deepest days of the pandemic, we learned that the Number One search query on our Freeman website was “hybrid.” This term had become shorthand for the sort of stop-gap live/virtual event format favored by the industry as it regrouped following pandemic-driven event cancellations. In March […] Written by BPH June 30, 2021June 30, 2021