The Caveman Guide to Training and Development II is the second in my series of training books from an unusual commonsense way of looking at training as well as from the point of view of all the players in mind. I have been a "jack of all trades" in the business and government world. I have been an actor/director/performance critic, a college professor, a psychologist, and a training manager/developer. I try to apply all of these aspects to training as a way of illuminating the subject. Onl...

From when it all began, learning and experimenting was simple. "I learned that if I sharpened my spear and kept it sharpened I was more likely to kill the first time I threw it and struck my prey." Sharpen your quest for a perfect training solution! Whether a novice or experienced trainer, or a manager, you will find insights that will change the way you look at training and development forever!Some days I long for the days of just knowing and doing my part for the cave, but that w...

Humans by themselves could only fail. Society is splintered after allowing an evolving artificial intelligence, calling itself Makr run the planet's resources, saving humankind the trouble. Not all people have accepted the illusion of a perfectly run society or PerSoc. The lazy and frustrated ones did. Some even worship Makr as a god. Makr has armies of mobile cyberts constantly seeking out human malcontents to delete. Had the human race rebelled or unified in some way there might ...

Big city theatre reviews are either so scholarly the average person doesn't read them or so entertaining without saying anything. ActingSmarts as Shaw is known by shows how the writer should write reviews, how consumers should take them and how theatre people can learn from them.A show can be entertaining without being art. It can have weak points but soar to great heights elsewhere. Since every audience is different, most actors agree, every performance is different, too. Every re...

For anyone who auditions regularly you do develop a tough skin, but starting out and staying with it is tough because rejection hurts. It hurts more at the beginning because you haven't worked out all the behavioral defenses, but deep down it still hurts even the most experienced performer.Performers in particular want to be loved by everyone. An audition is an example of their talent. If you reject their audition, you reject their talent–or so it seems. I'm here to tell you it's n...

The poems in Stigmata are ruinous encounters between traumatic and historical memory. They transfigure the cult of the wound into a mystic frenzy of sex, grief, and noise. Drawing inspiration from a broad archive of texts and practices – apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex – Stigmata forms a counterhistory of the wound, an experiment in fractured memoir and misplaced anatomy that weaponizes the confession...

True to John Jackshaw's convoluted form, "My Blind Spot; What I Hear Is Funnier than What You See" is his first published volume, while being the second in a book series. John's favorite position is the juxtaposition, and MY BLIND SPOT (MBS) is that sweet spot of outrageous humor, juxtapositioned somewhere between Garrison Keillor, Dave Berry, and Detroit."My Blind Spot" is a logical progression from John Jackshaw's illogical broadcasting career, which ultimately transmitted him to...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

"In Makr's Shadow" (formerly Harry's Reality), humans now called Bios could only fail. Harry Bolls and his new found friends make a difference. Harry Bolls sees through illusion and dreams of truth. The worlds of reality, fantasy and Cyber will never be the same.Had the human race rebelled or unified in some way there might have been hope. Now, saving the world rests on a pampered and helpless people who can hardly survive Outside the fantasy world created by the artificial intelli...

Clara Phelps has a gift. A gift that's probably going to cost her life...Born with an unusual ability to read people, to see a snapshot of their thoughts each time she makes eye contact, Clara has struggled to make friends and live the 'straight and narrow life'. But when she accidentally causes the daughter of a Russian Mafia member to be shot, her lack of social skills quickly become the least of her problems.This thrill-a-minute story will have you on the edge of your se...

Evolution had been paralleled on other planets; most humans would not accept this. Politics nurtured this ignorance which meant that many crimes were allowed to go unpunished. Denial of the existence of these other peoples was not only dangerous for all species, but held back the whole Galaxy. Human complacency was born of their reliance on technology which they assumed put them at the pinnacle of evolution!Humanity hadn't changed, now it had the means as well as the motivation to e...

In a world spanning six continents and twenty diverse cultures, a delicate balance teeters on the precipice of chaos. Exuberant festivals and smoldering resentments set the stage, as brute force clashes with extraordinary mental abilities and ancient warfare faces off against the latest steam-powered weaponry.Within the United Empires, known as the Realm, opulent royal balls and the vibrant rhythm of monthly festivals veil a sinister truth: an underground organization waits in the ...