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  • A Field Guide to Your Internal True North (An AI Experiment)

    A note before you read—this is an experiment. I've spent years accumulating ideas, learning, and ways of thinking abo...

  • Your Welcome, Kenny B. Laws

    I was channel surfing late one night when I came across a local news story about a guy who builds jet turbines for th...

  • Your Welcome, Kenny B.

    I was channel surfing late one night when I came across a local news story about a guy who builds jet turbines for th...

  • If You Can Keep It

    Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastro...

  • If You Can Keep It (One Citizen's Response to the State of the Union)

    Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastro...

  • The Death of Listening

    Somewhere in the past decade or two—pick your own cultural ruin-marker— it stopped being a side quirk that people don...

  • The Most Important Questions Are the Ones You're Avoiding

    If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that pr...

  • The Rose in the Cesspool

    I Can't Seem to Let The Graystones (and a Few Others) Go. And Why They Matter More Than Ever The internet used to be....

  • Make Memories First, Ask Questions Later

    This post is excerpted from a letter to my daughter on her 18th birthday. What does a dad say to his beloved daughter...

  • Forging & Fruits (Or, the Presents of Presence)

    i. the forging (2020) In the early days of January 2020, I was helping my daughter pack for her semester abroad. It's...

  • Smiling Assassins

    I recently came across a fascinating series of studies about women who disguise negative gossip as concern. Instead o...

  • The Forging & The Fruits

    i. the forging (2020) In the early days of January 2020, I was helping my daughter pack for her semester abroad. It's...

  • The Most Important Question Is the One You're Avoiding

    If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that pr...

  • Like>Love

    We've been chasing the wrong thing for a long time. For centuries we've built our entire civilization around love — t...

  • Notes On Discernment & Character (something I've been thinking about)

    Lately I've been thinking about people—their motivations, how we read them, what they do and don't do, what they say ...

  • Socks, Geniuses, Gangsters

    A few bright spots from 2025. This summer I posted a short piece called There’s A Crack In Everything, That’s How the...

  • Hope Is a Complicated Little Bastard

    Sometimes the mind underlines things before you know why. You jot down a quote, a song lyric, something someone said,...

  • Holy Shame

    The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century l...

  • Proofs of Wonder

    On May 20, 1999, just after five in the morning, my daughter was born. If you've been in that room, you know. Reality...