A simple three-tiered decision framework—hats, haircuts, and tattoos—to eliminate analysis paralysis and match deliberation to risk.
Category: Education
Bicycle Do
A friend of mine lent me a book a few months ago at Angel Falls, our usual coffee spot in Akron. It’s called Taekwondo: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Warrior by Doug Cook. He’s into martial arts, and I think he thought I’d appreciate the philosophical side of it. He was right, but maybe not
Command Line Terminal to The Universe
The first time I saw someone use a terminal to control a remote computer, I didn’t understand what I was watching. I was a student at the University of Akron. An IT support guy sat down, opened a window, and typed something. Then he was somewhere else. He was executing commands on a different machine,
AI Isn’t Killing People. Loneliness Is.
The data on AI and suicide doesn’t support the panic — and the panic itself may be costing lives. Twelve documented AI-linked deaths against 49,000 annual suicides. The ratio matters.
Who We Are
Who We Are I was sitting at a bar the other night, just leaning into the hum of the room. The guy on the stool next to me was easy to talk to—the kind of stranger you feel like you’ve known for years after just ten minutes. We talked about the local football scores, the
Secular Incrementalism
Table of Contents Toggle Secular Incrementalism The Components of Human Existence Gaming the System On Suicide The Primitive Primitives Conclusion: The Recursive Mandate Secular Incrementalism Modern life often defaults to a “passive nihilism” – the quiet assumption that if there is no God and no absolute meaning handed down to us, we are free to
Joe Rogan: From Underground Zine to Spotify Zombie
I didn’t know Joe Rogan until the podcast era; I vaguely knew him as a “meh” comedian. But when the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) began, it was genuinely groundbreaking. It started as an alternative, and I feel like it doesn’t get enough credit for that early vision. What made it great wasn’t just Rogan talking
Continue Reading “Joe Rogan: From Underground Zine to Spotify Zombie”
Analyzing President Trump’s Inner Circle in The Context of Executive Presence
I recently finished the Executive Presence and Influence: Persuasive Leadership Development class through Wharton. During the class, I took really good notes. I used these notes, and all of the homework to create an Executive Coach in a Gemini Gem. Basically, a Gemini Gem gives you a way to pre-seed any questions you ask the
Continue Reading “Analyzing President Trump’s Inner Circle in The Context of Executive Presence”
The Pre-Hunt Gathering
I have a flashes of a specific memory from a long forgotten yearly sales kick-off meeting circa 2014. There were roughly 1000 of us at this kick-off, and I probably knew hundreds of the people personally. If you’ve never been in a large sales team, these are huge events that corporate America spends large sums
The Headbutt of Truth: Why Being Right Will Get You Killed (or at Least Head-Butted)
🤯 The Headbutt of Truth: Why Being Right Will Get You Killed (or at Least Head-Butted) Listen, I made a monumental mistake fifteen years ago that I still think about. It wasn’t the flirting (I was 35, and it was before I met my wife, so cut me some slack). It wasn’t even the fact