Intellectual Fitness Requires Intention
20 March 2026
I've been waking up at 4:30am for the better part of three decades. In the early years it wasn't a choice so much as a condition of the job: I…
Reflections on leadership, lean, and life.
20 March 2026
I've been waking up at 4:30am for the better part of three decades. In the early years it wasn't a choice so much as a condition of the job: I…
18 March 2026
Isaac Asimov wrote his famous line about ignorance and democracy in a 1980 Newsweek column, and it's been bouncing around LinkedIn this week with…
15 March 2026
Serves: 2 Total time: ~35 minutes Difficulty: Easy Diet: Vegetarian Social & Historical Context Kuku Sabzi is one of the most quietly distincti…
15 March 2026
From my Cooking the World Series... Serves: 4 Total time: ~55 minutes active cooking Diet: Vegan Social & Historical Context Lobio — the Georg…
15 March 2026
A local friend of mine, Andrea Lius, recently had an article published in Smithsonian Magazine about water-breathing bumblebees. She sent it my way, a…
13 March 2026
I once spent the better part of a Friday building a PowerPoint presentation about a problem I had already solved. The solution was clear, the data was…
11 March 2026
Visitors to the fifth floor of Anthropic's San Francisco headquarters are greeted by warm wood, soft light, a portrait of Alan Turing, and a recep…
6 March 2026
If you've spent any time in the lean world, Henry Ford is essentially a founding father. The moving assembly line. Continuous flow. Waste eliminat…