Jim Leff's Slog

A friend faced an unexpected major expense. Living paycheck-to-paycheck, he was stuck. I loaned him the money, which he agreed to repay in m...

I once did a fair bit of teaching of younger jazz players, mostly via seminars in Europe. Often I'd encounter someone with no perceptibl...

When a selfish person offers a trifle, your debt will be immense. Selfish recipients get it. Duly surprised by generosity, they make a her...

Centrists and moderates of either stripe who are alarmed by Harris' pandering talk of price controls (if you're going to ape Nixon, ...

Trump just said : "But with your vote, the reign will be over. That horrible reign. In a way, it's a reign of terror, you know, i...

How did America, a majority racist nation in 2008, elect a black president? Obama was normal. Smart. Competent. Positive. American. He didn...

There's one quality tying together my fragmented identities. As an entrepreneur, as an artist (writer and musician), and as a yogi, noth...

Following up on my previous posting , here's another sparse effort to explain the primacy of framing:

Dude's straining so very hard to conceptualize “framing”. Same guy, resorting to an example (good one, too!) to illustrate his poi...

Abe, the text looks ok to me, but you leave yourself open to criticism unless you really hammer home your empathy, etc. Don't assume the...