I was wandering along the beach this morning, as the tide was coming in. To avoid the waves, I dodged, skipped over a rock pile, and scooted playfully. I don’t mind getting my sneakers muddy or wet. For a couple seconds, I played a fun game with the waves. I smiled and continued up the beach like a normal adult. I then...

I spoke with a friend who described this truly interesting thing he's doing for his work. It involves AI. After he finished describing it and the real value it's creating he wondered out loud... How many buffalo did I just kill? Another friend I spoke to recently said a similar thing. He feels he needs to use AI or...

Yesterday I ran a retrospective workshop for a group of folks at work. We used the constellations activity, which is a really interesting format. In my experience it helps people think hard about “group think” and “group mind”. The former generally being not very effective, the latter being amazing when channeled...

It's June 13th, 2025. June is typically a busy month for me and my family. Birthdays, Anniversary, the end of the school year. Spring is making its way into summer. Yard work. Broken lawn mowers. Turns out, it's a lot. This year is even busier than usual with a too-short trip for me to Long Island to see my parents....

Despite growing up on Long Island, New York I don't know much about sailing. But I wholeheartedly believe that a rising tide lifts all ships, as long as everyone has sea-worthy boats.Three of my major influences:One:This is the longest running research ever conducted. I find it fascinating in scope and outcome. The...

Where we were is hazy and unchangeable. Where we’re going is uncertain. All we have is what we are becoming.

A painting of a pile of notebooks.The wheel. Fire. The Internet. These are often cited as humanity’s greatest inventions. I think we’re undervaluing paper. If someone asked me what the greatest inventions we’ve made are, I’d add paper to the list. And add a caveat to the Internet. The un-enshitified Internet, but that’s...

A painting of a person holding a basket of fruit and vegetables. My friend Chris and I were accountability buddies in the Ness Labs Collector to Creator course a while back. This course was a really great introduction to collecting information and then doing something with it. Writing in particular, but whatever way you...

Will tomorrow look and feel a lot like today? Probably, yes. Will five years from now look and feel a lot like today? Plausibly, maybe. Possibly, no one knows.No one can see the future. Hell, no one knows exactly what to do right now. We strategize and plan and then the unexpected happens (it always does) right before...

This rock is changing right in front of your eyes.  194b15a4-b37a-4ca3-af6a-0a16ffb948af.jpeg 75.46 KB Slowly.When I took this photo, the tide was low, but coming in. I’d say that this rock was a part of the land. When the tide is high, the rock would be covered by water. It would then be a part of the ocean.The tide...

Every so often I am reminded about microsolidarity. Most recently by Marin Petrov in his beautiful article Riding the Crest. Microsolidarity has been on my radar for a while, but I’ve never dug deep into it, until recently. Thank you, Marin.It’s community building, in a nutshell, with these two goals: The first...

This quote from the book The Untethered Soul: A Journey Beyond Yourself really struck me. There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it. – Michael A. Singer The Voice of the Mind aka the inner critic aka the monkey mind. It has many...

Today I learned (or realized I already knew) that the monkey mind’s consistent chatter is neither wrong or right. It just is. Your awareness, your 'you' is the listener of the chatter. It observes and can make meaning from the nonsense, or ignore it. This 10 minute video from Eva-Lotta Lamm is a tutorial on how to...

Before you were you, you existed in some unknowable body of water. Some forces came together and caused a joining and you become you. And you propelled into existence.  You are a wave.  You crested and rush headlong into the unknown. You collect experiences as you head toward the finitude of the shore. At some point,...