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
“There is no past and no future; no one has ever entered those two imaginary kingdoms. There is only the present.”
―Leo Tolstoy
―Leo Tolstoy
January 6, 2026 at 5:52 AM
“There is no past and no future; no one has ever entered those two imaginary kingdoms. There is only the present.”
―Leo Tolstoy
―Leo Tolstoy
"Certainly there is a new age coming, and it will be a planetary age. But the beginnings of ages are usually terrible, with great violence, yang in a most brutal way. New ages don't come softly; they are times of aggression and smashing. I see no sign of anything gentle happening."
-Joseph Campbell
-Joseph Campbell
January 5, 2026 at 5:26 AM
"Certainly there is a new age coming, and it will be a planetary age. But the beginnings of ages are usually terrible, with great violence, yang in a most brutal way. New ages don't come softly; they are times of aggression and smashing. I see no sign of anything gentle happening."
-Joseph Campbell
-Joseph Campbell
"Anger is the common substitute for logic among those who have no evidence for what they desperately want to believe."
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov
January 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
"Anger is the common substitute for logic among those who have no evidence for what they desperately want to believe."
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov
“If you think in terms of one year, plant rice; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of one hundred years, teach the people.”
— Guan Zhong, Guanzi
— Guan Zhong, Guanzi
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 AM
“If you think in terms of one year, plant rice; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of one hundred years, teach the people.”
— Guan Zhong, Guanzi
— Guan Zhong, Guanzi
“Everyone takes the limits of their own vision to be the limits of the world.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Arthur Schopenhauer
January 2, 2026 at 1:12 AM
“Everyone takes the limits of their own vision to be the limits of the world.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers."
- Seneca, Letters of a Stoic
- Seneca, Letters of a Stoic
December 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers."
- Seneca, Letters of a Stoic
- Seneca, Letters of a Stoic
"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters."
~ Antonio Gramsci, Italian communist writing from jail in the time of Mussolini.
~ Antonio Gramsci, Italian communist writing from jail in the time of Mussolini.
December 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters."
~ Antonio Gramsci, Italian communist writing from jail in the time of Mussolini.
~ Antonio Gramsci, Italian communist writing from jail in the time of Mussolini.
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
-Ernest Hemingway
-Ernest Hemingway
December 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
-Ernest Hemingway
-Ernest Hemingway
“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.