My father is a retired Air Force pilot who once made supersonic flight look routine, and yet, he’s consistently undone by an episode of Little House on the Prairie. It turns out, real strength has nothing to prove.
Category: Insights
The AI train is leaving. Are there risks? Absolutely. Should smarter people than me be working on guardrails? Yesterday. But waiting for perfect safety before boarding isn’t caution — it just increases the certainty of getting left behind.
Protests aren’t magic on their own, they’re most effective when paired with strategy (policy goals, organizing, follow-through). But as a spark? They’re one of the fastest ways to turn “nothing will change” into “maybe something can.”
For most of my life, what I did defined a large part of who I was. Without a job title, I had to figure out how to measure my value on my own terms—a slightly unsettling but ultimately freeing exercise.
Democracy is not static. It bends, it falters, it rebuilds. History shows that progress is rarely linear, and the road to justice, equity, and stability is littered with setbacks. But also, with remarkable recoveries. While democracy is fragile, it is never beyond repair.
I didn’t grow up attending protests, but I did grow up with a strong sense of patriotism and a pride in a country branded as “the land of the free and the home of the brave”.
The irony is not lost on me that our current administration chose a song performed by a campy disco band featuring a black policeman, a gay American Indian, a cowboy (also gay), a construction worker, a leather-clad biker, and a sailor as their theme song.
I’m not Catholic or even a religious person but Pope Francis was somebody that I…
My son said something that struck me as interesting yesterday. Ok, he tells me interesting…
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