Derek the Strategist
@derekthestrategist.bsky.social
Obstacle Course Racer | Veteran | Author of leadership & sales strategy books | Zen | Thriving at the intersection of grit, wisdom, and transformation.
Author of The Strategic Sales Leader. http://bit.ly/3VfCnpv
Author of The Strategic Sales Leader. http://bit.ly/3VfCnpv
“You cannot remove a thorn by shouting at it; the hand must be brave.”
- African Proverb
- African Proverb
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“You cannot remove a thorn by shouting at it; the hand must be brave.”
- African Proverb
- African Proverb
“Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.”
- Frank Zappa
- Frank Zappa
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.”
- Frank Zappa
- Frank Zappa
“Accept advice from those who have walked the road, not those who point at it.”
- African Proverb
- African Proverb
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“Accept advice from those who have walked the road, not those who point at it.”
- African Proverb
- African Proverb
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”
- Michael Crichton
- Michael Crichton
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”
- Michael Crichton
- Michael Crichton
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“People don’t change when they see the light, they change when they feel the heat.” - Anonymous
Posting this for no apparent reason.
Posting this for no apparent reason.
October 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“People don’t change when they see the light, they change when they feel the heat.” - Anonymous
Posting this for no apparent reason.
Posting this for no apparent reason.
“In times of change, LEARNERS inherit the earth, while the LEARNED find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
- Eric Hoffer
- Eric Hoffer
September 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“In times of change, LEARNERS inherit the earth, while the LEARNED find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
- Eric Hoffer
- Eric Hoffer
"What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand." Xunzi (340 - 245 BC)
September 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand." Xunzi (340 - 245 BC)
"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."-Arthur C Clarke
September 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."-Arthur C Clarke
So tired of all the village idiots who banded together and somehow took over this nation.
August 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
So tired of all the village idiots who banded together and somehow took over this nation.
“We are very malleable. We can bring out the best in us and it’s our job to design societies which bring out the best and suppress the predispositions which may once served a role, but now are obsolete.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
August 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“We are very malleable. We can bring out the best in us and it’s our job to design societies which bring out the best and suppress the predispositions which may once served a role, but now are obsolete.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
"A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life."
~Eric Hoffer
~Eric Hoffer
July 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life."
~Eric Hoffer
~Eric Hoffer
"A liar's worst enemy is someone with a good memory" - Dodinsky
July 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"A liar's worst enemy is someone with a good memory" - Dodinsky
Our current predicament can be summed up in one sentence: mediocre men who have the privilege of opinion, without the burden of experience.
July 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Our current predicament can be summed up in one sentence: mediocre men who have the privilege of opinion, without the burden of experience.
“The greater the outward show; the greater the inner poverty.” — Krishnamurti
July 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“The greater the outward show; the greater the inner poverty.” — Krishnamurti
"You can’t wake a person who’s pretending to sleep."
— Navajo proverb
— Navajo proverb
July 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"You can’t wake a person who’s pretending to sleep."
— Navajo proverb
— Navajo proverb
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Great read. Reposting to all my followers.
June 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Great read. Reposting to all my followers.
Reposted by Derek the Strategist
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
A reminder to all here: "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument.” - William McAdoo
Please stop wasting your precious life energy arguing with fools.
Please stop wasting your precious life energy arguing with fools.
May 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A reminder to all here: "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument.” - William McAdoo
Please stop wasting your precious life energy arguing with fools.
Please stop wasting your precious life energy arguing with fools.
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"Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality."
bookshop.org/p/books/mora...
bookshop.org/p/books/mora...
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
How Liberals and Conservatives Think
bookshop.org
May 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality."
bookshop.org/p/books/mora...
bookshop.org/p/books/mora...
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"Complex narratives — the kind we find in anyone’s life story, as well as in fairy tales, novels and dramas — are made up of smaller narratives with very simple structures.
"Those structures are called 'frames' or 'scripts.'" - George Lakoff
www.theframelab.org/moral-warfar...
"Those structures are called 'frames' or 'scripts.'" - George Lakoff
www.theframelab.org/moral-warfar...
Moral Warfare 101: Frames and Your Brain
Part two in a series on the structure of political ideology
www.theframelab.org
May 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"Complex narratives — the kind we find in anyone’s life story, as well as in fairy tales, novels and dramas — are made up of smaller narratives with very simple structures.
"Those structures are called 'frames' or 'scripts.'" - George Lakoff
www.theframelab.org/moral-warfar...
"Those structures are called 'frames' or 'scripts.'" - George Lakoff
www.theframelab.org/moral-warfar...
“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci
Habeas Corpus
Habeas Corpus
May 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci
Habeas Corpus
Habeas Corpus
“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot fight will be victorious.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
May 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot fight will be victorious.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Happy Birthday to master storyteller Sir David Attenborough! 🎉
We’ve loved working with Sir David as he delivered the narration to the upcoming immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough.
Tickets go on sale in just two weeks. Keep an eye out for the announcement!
We’ve loved working with Sir David as he delivered the narration to the upcoming immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough.
Tickets go on sale in just two weeks. Keep an eye out for the announcement!
May 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Happy Birthday to master storyteller Sir David Attenborough! 🎉
We’ve loved working with Sir David as he delivered the narration to the upcoming immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough.
Tickets go on sale in just two weeks. Keep an eye out for the announcement!
We’ve loved working with Sir David as he delivered the narration to the upcoming immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough.
Tickets go on sale in just two weeks. Keep an eye out for the announcement!
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Don’t let him BS you Trump gave an tariff exemption to Rolls Royce because he lives in Palm Beach and serves the wealthy. There ain’t no KIA’s at the Mar a Lago valet stand. Oligarch POTUS.
May 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Don’t let him BS you Trump gave an tariff exemption to Rolls Royce because he lives in Palm Beach and serves the wealthy. There ain’t no KIA’s at the Mar a Lago valet stand. Oligarch POTUS.