TL;DR: A wide week, three book quotes, and the practice of finding coherence across disparate angles. “On Why I Read” May 3rd, 2026HiyaSunday evening in DC. A good dinner, and then book open as I got ready to call it a day. That’s the moment I k...

TL;DR: Life doesn’t arrive in manageable portions. The practice I am learning is to hold all of it… at once.  “On All of It” April 26, 2026 Hiya  There is a moment I keep returning to from the past week: Our Mama, moving thro...

TL;DR: Sometimes I get pulled by things that are just a little off course. My next role is not about less. It is about angle. Bringing the right and the left in closer, so that everything I focus on is more directional. A week of three terrains - the...

TL;DR: Last week, I turned 54, walked the battlefields at Antietam, had coffee with three great friends, and experienced that the cost of hesitation isn’t always dramatic. Sometimes it just looks like just saying “maybe.” "On Going Long"12 April...

TL;DR: This week I rode mountain bikes along the Pacific, watched a car drive itself through San Luis Obispo, sat with a question I thought had no answer, and learned (again) that what I’m holding tightest is sometimes the thing most ready to be hand...