Pain is the Gatekeeper of Destiny
Why certain chambers of life cannot be entered until you prove you can carry what's inside them.
The Physics of Scale: Why What Got You Here Will Break You At Scale
Startup behaviors that drive early growth often break at scale. Risk compounds exponentially while your margin for error shrinks to zero. Understanding the physics of business growth and organizational transformation helps founders navigate this critical transition.
Beyond Invisible: Designing With Audio
Sound shapes experience as fundamentally as light does. So why do we still treat speakers like something to hide?
The Cycle of Success
Wealth isn't built in the spotlight; it's built in the thousand invisible moments where you chose the harder right over the easier wrong. The Romans had three words for this: Fac quod dicis, which means do what you say. Jesus had it in one: Love. That's how you enter the cycle.
You Are Not the Boss... If You Have to Tell People You Are
When you announce your authority before you've earned it, you're not climbing. You're excavating.
Accidental Shabbat
I moved to Nashville and became more observant than I ever was before. All it took was two entrees for $12 and absolutely nothing to kvetch about.
Know When to Fold: The Art of Strategic Surrender
Why the smartest form of persistence is knowing when to let go of what's not working.
Vision Alone Never Built Anything
Why do brilliant founders with perfect vision still fail? Because they confuse seeing the destination with knowing the path. The architect draws the house. The contractor knows the foundation comes first. Leadership is having the humility to listen.
Stop Jumping Without a Parachute
The ship needs a captain on the bridge. But the captain on the bridge needs to be looking at the right things. Spend the 55 minutes. Define the problem. Check for the parachute. Then the five minutes of solution becomes obvious.
Are You an Impostor?
You've built an elaborate job that's holding your own company hostage. You wanted freedom. You built a prison.
The Geometry of Thought
"If you know the radius of a person's knowledge, you know the circumference of their thoughts." ~Dr. Drake Dudley
If You Fire Before You Aim, People Die
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. ~Sun Tzu