Things I’ll Never Do Again: Wear A Name Tag

I’ve done a lot of thinking about whether are really any limits to the kind of situation I’d be wiling to find myself in to acheive a meaningful change. And I’ve decided that the main criteria is this: I’m not going to wear a name tag.

I’ve done it before, when I was the host at a restaurant. There’s a very old and true idea that naming something gives you power over it. The customers don’t have nametags, and the staff do. So any customer can look at any staff member and know something about them that’s very important and personal: what their parents decided to call them. Read the rest of this entry »