Thoughts.
Musings on work, community, and an AI-powered future.
Why Smart Workers Aren't Using AI: It's Not What You Think
When AI can make people so much more productive, why aren't more smart workers using it?
The Generalist's Renaissance: Why Your "Scattered" Resume is Actually Your Superpower
Traditional career advice tells us to pick a lane and stay in it. Build deep expertise. Become the go-to person for one specific thing. But what happens when your expertise is seeing connections across lanes? When your talents are in translation, adaptation, and rapid learning?
Not all communities were meant to last forever—and that's perfectly fine.
How to build community when you know you're leaving.
Punished for Success: The Benefits Cliff
We've accidentally built a system where our best workers can't afford to succeed.
The Passion Trap: Why Monetizing Your Purpose Is Failing You
The most successful people I know aren't chasing their passion; they're building three distinct layers of career value that most of us confuse.
From Asking to Offering
There's this thing that happens when you're about to ask for something important. Your palms sweat, your voice gets smaller, you catch yourself apologizing before you've even made the request.
AI's Intelligence Problem
Traditional AI defines intelligence too narrowly. What if we expanded its scope to include emotional, social, practical, and community-oriented intelligence?
Picture AI learning "street smarts" from local vendors, or empowering communities to pool wisdom for collective economic growth.
Nonprofits and Relevance: Innovate or Perish
Nonprofits share a fundamental structural challenge: the client is not the customer.
Good strategy reshapes reality into a story people want to believe.
Strategy is storytelling.