Writing
Slow essays. Long arcs.
The garden grows monthly, not weekly. Each piece sits with me for a while before it goes up. If something here is useful to you, the bookshelf is the next door over.
Currently exploring
What I'm thinking about right now.
Notes that have not yet become essays. Some will. Some will quietly die in a Saturday afternoon.
- The shape of the second half — recalibration, not crisis.
- Money as a system, not a number — what stewardship actually looks like across generations.
- The decline of long attention, and what to do about it as a parent and a leader.
- Mentorship at scale without losing intimacy — the hardest open problem on this page.
- Why most "AI for productivity" advice misses the actual leverage: AI for thinking, not typing.
Updated occasionally — when the list itself starts to feel stale.
Published
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The Great Transition: 2025-2030
The next five years may shape your career, finances, and family more than the previous thirty. Not because the future is knowable — but because the formula that worked for the last generation is quietly going out of date. A field guide to preparation, not prediction.
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Coach, Not Boss
Most engineering managers I have known were excellent engineers and reluctant humans. The job is the inverse. The technical bar got you the title; what keeps you in it is something quieter.
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Financially Fulfilled, Experientially Enriched
The point of money is not to have a lot of it. The point is to have a life. Most of the people I know who built large balance sheets did so by accident — and most of the people I know who built rich lives did so on purpose.
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Clarity Over Certainty
We confuse the two all the time. Certainty pretends to know what comes next; clarity simply sees what is true now. The first kills movement; the second creates it.
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