Category: Essays

Business travel means airports. Hotels. Conference rooms. It’s a chain restaurant where the conversation doesn’t always click and the dinner sometimes feels like it might never end. And at the end of it, you’re in a hotel room, away from your family, wondering what your kids did today. I’m not telling you this to scare… Continue reading Show Up →

There’s constant debate about who wins the AI race. OpenAI or Anthropic. ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini. OpenClaw or CoWork. The list goes on. Here’s the thing: the winner doesn’t matter. What matters is what happens after the winner is decided, or more precisely, after nobody wins and everybody deploys. Because we’re headed toward a… Continue reading Agent-on-Agent →

I spent most of my life thinking I was the problem. Everyone around me talks for ten, fifteen minutes. They unspool. They build. They circle back. They restate. They qualify. They add a story. They add another. I say something in one or two. Yes. No. Here’s what I think. Done. I internalized it. I’m… Continue reading Brevity over BS →

I woke up this morning and went to make eggs. Six of them. A thirty-second job on a normal day—crack, crack, crack, whisk, pan, done. My oldest daughter had other plans. She’s six, and she is eager. Eager to cook, eager to clean, eager to help with anything that remotely resembles a chore. It’s a… Continue reading The Two-Bowl Method →

AI is already reshaping which degrees are worth their cost. Companies like Anthropic, which seem to target a new profession for automation every few weeks, are creating real uncertainty around career paths that once felt bulletproof — accounting, law, even software engineering. The question isn’t whether this changes the calculus on college. It’s how. My… Continue reading The College Advice I’d Give My Kids →

I woke up on a Monday feeling different than I had in ages. I couldn't put my finger on it. But something had changed. I could think. I could focus. I felt great excitement for the day. For life. It was wondrous at first. Then it turned to fear. Would this last? Would the clock… Continue reading Light Through the Fog →

I have always loved maps. Always loved guides. Why waste time when you can find a highly structured and deeply researched manual that provides the blueprint. For the longest time, I've wanted to create a guide of my own. A guide for my life. A keystone document that I could come back to when I… Continue reading Personal Constitution →