Unintended Consequences

We all create a wake: the downstream turbulence of us. Treat unintended consequences as welcomed guests. Catalog & learn from them. Brief episode with Health Hats

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The downstream turbulence of us 00:53. 1

Unintended consequences. That’s COVID life. 02:41. 1

Disasters and public health 04:45. 1

Various unintended consequences 05:58. 2

Reflection 08:12. 2

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Credits
Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Boston Drummer, Composer, Arranger

Sponsored by Abridge

Photo by Bee Calder on Unsplash

Thanks to these fine people who inspired me for this episode: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Robert Doherty, Dorothy Cuccinelli, Dick Argys, Caryl Carpenter, Suzanne Feeney

Links
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi (amazing, day-in and day-out), The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Moving to Flood Plains The Unintended Consequences of the National Flood Insurance Program on Population Flows

Mark Twain and the Paige Typesetter

Brent Goldfarb and David Kirsch, Bubbles and Crashes

Edward Tenner’s TED Talk, Unintended Consequences

How to start a movement
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The downstream turbulence of us
We all create a wake - the downstream turbulence of us, think a boat or a duck. Many people don’t realize they leave a wake behind them.  Those that do rely on family, friends, co-workers, and coaches to let them know about that wake so they can mitigate (lessen) the impact of these unintended consequences of being. In the ’90s at Value Behavioral Health in Troy, NY, Jim Bulger, my mentor and best boss ever, often spoke to me about my wake. Another great boss and mentor, Bob Doherty, at St. Peter’s Addiction Recovery Center told me, with love, that I was an acquired taste. I learned that I needed a boss with self-confidence to value me and my wake.  My 9-year-old grandson, the writer, read to me from a book he wrote about wizards using wands. I asked him how using a wand affected the wizard. He said, ‘sometimes powers can come back up the wand to t...