In March of 415, the most respected scholar in Alexandria was dragged from her carriage, killed inside a church, and torn to pieces in the street. The Roman inquiry that followed never named a single guilty party. The man whose followers did it was later made a saint.Hypatia ran the Neoplatonic school of Alexandria. She wrote commentaries on Apollonius of Perga and Diophantus of Alexandria that scholars copied across the Mediterranean, refined the design of the ast...

"Find a technical co-founder." For two decades, that was the standard answer to anyone with a software idea and no engineering background. It killed more good products than bad markets ever did.That answer is now obsolete.A new kind of founder is shipping real, paying products — no computer science degree, no engineering hire, no late nights spent learning to code. They are domain experts who understand their market better than any outside developer could, ...

The AI revolution and the new trade wars are the same story—and almost no one is connecting them.Two headlines dominate the decade: the breathtaking rise of artificial intelligence, and the slow fracturing of the global economy into rival technology blocs. Most people read them as separate events. They are not. The chips that train AI models, the export controls that govern who can buy them, the rare earths that go into them, and the standards that define how they ...

Most CIOs are still optimizing a role that no longer exists.The job was designed around a simple premise: technology supports the business, and the business decides. Annual budgets. Roadmaps measured in quarters. A cost center whose main job is to keep the lights on. Every one of those load-bearing assumptions was built for a world where humans made every decision and software waited to be told what to do. AI broke that premise — and the executives still running th...

Most relationship advice assumes you're starting from nothing. After fifty, you're starting from everything.Two careers. Two financial histories. Adult children with opinions. An ex-spouse who never fully leaves the picture. Decades of habits formed long before you met. When you commit to someone later in life, you aren't painting on a blank canvas — you're merging two finished paintings and hoping the result still looks like a life.Love, Rebuilt i...

The Einstein you didn't learn in school.You know the dorm-room poster. You don't know Albert Einstein.The actual man was a Jewish refugee with a 5,000-mark Nazi bounty on his head. He was the patent clerk who broke physics on a desk meant for evaluating other people's inventions. He was the husband who walked away from a brilliant first wife after she helped with his math. He was the FBI's most-watched scientist — a 1,427-page file fed personally by J. Edgar Hoover. He was ...

How will we regather the church after pandemic?The Covid-19 pandemic is an inflection point for the church everywhere—and certainly for the Episcopal Church. The sudden flowering of creativity, connection, and collaboration is an expression of the Holy Spirit’s relentless presence within the church; yet ongoing distancing creates difficulties to be overcome on the other side of the present crisis.How will we change habits of isolation and regather the churc...

Most people don't have an automation problem. They have a starting problem.They know AI can handle the repetitive parts of their job. They've seen the tools. They may have even tried a few. But knowing AI is capable and actually having a system that runs without you are two completely different things — and the gap between them is where most people stay stuck.The AI Automation Playbook is a structured 30-day program for knowledge workers who are done reading about AI and re...

There are two versions of the independent consulting story. The one people post about — the freedom, the rates, the laptop on a beach. And the one nobody posts about — the engineer who quit a good job, burned through eighteen months of savings, and quietly went back to employment wondering what went wrong.The difference between those two outcomes is almost never talent. It's preparation.The Consultant's Leap is a field guide to going independent, written by...