Writing
Essays on leadership, infrastructure, and the gap between plans and reality.
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The Distance Tax
Professional distance feels like maturity. It's actually a ceiling on what you can get out of people. The military and sales both taught me to break the rule.
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The People Who Pass Through
Teams are built to lose people. The rare ones leave a piece of themselves wired into how the team works, long after they're gone.
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The Delegation Gap
Apple won the enterprise by winning the pocket first. The same thing is happening with AI. But this time, the people who can't delegate are getting left behind.
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On Curiosity as a Career Strategy
The best career advice I ever ignored was to pick a lane. I went from bombs to networks to data centers to whiskey to the VP chair. Every detour taught me something the straight path never would have.
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The Gap Between the Whiteboard and the Field
Most plans fail in the same place — the transition from theory to execution. Here's what I've learned about that space.