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.
Sound shapes experience as fundamentally as light does. So why do we still treat speakers like something to hide?
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.
When you announce your authority before you've earned it, you're not climbing. You're excavating.
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.
Why the smartest form of persistence is knowing when to let go of what's not working.
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.
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.
You've built an elaborate job that's holding your own company hostage. You wanted freedom. You built a prison.
"If you know the radius of a person's knowledge, you know the circumference of their thoughts." ~Dr. Drake Dudley
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. ~Sun Tzu
Southwest Airlines ended its 54-year "bags fly free" policy on May 28th, 2025, trading a vision that inspired loyalty for a business model that generates revenue and in doing so, committed the fastest way to ruin a historic brand: betrayal.