The Crucible I took my job at Onin out of desperation. Fired from my road gig and needing to eat and pay rent, I walked into a branch looking for a warehouse job. Lisa, the then branch manager, told me about a sales opening that I interviewed for and, eventually,...
Real Leadership: The Outworking of Authenticity No leader actually sets out to be a leader. The leader in caterpillar cast simply sets out to live life and express themselves fully, and when that authentic expression provides value, the butterfly of leadership emerges...
Big is Not Beautiful: The Fed Budget Bill is Grand in Size but Grotesque in Guise While the most obvious element of the enabling nanny state is the vociferous anti-DOGE crowd, perhaps the more insidious element of the constituent-devouring political class are leaders...
The Mericans' Costly Lesson - Part 2: Why the Nanny Needs to GoLet’s connect our Merican family allegory from my last post to reality.It has become evident that the nanny state, the overprotective, disempowering, enabling, constituent-devouring political class, has...
The Mericans are a familiar family. Elon and Amy met in college, and after Amy completed grad school, they got married and began to build a life together. The newlyweds enjoyed a few years as DINKs - double income no kids - with travel, eating out, nice cars, and new...
What if technology is the change agent to make humanity more human? If the pinnacle of performance in so many jobs is machine-like optimization, I say fashion the machines to do the mechanistic. Let the inhumane do the inhuman jobs of packaging widgets,...
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