Spotting Dragons
DECEMBER 2025 – The future is happening, ready or not. As per tradition, I took some long walks in the cold to reflect on this year and what signals life has been sending lately. Much remains true, I enjoy spending … Continued
Creative Freedom
JULY 2024 – Free expression, free speech, freedom of inquiry, all of these things are absolutely essential for a healthy society and future, but also for creating anything creatively meaningful. This may seem painfully obvious, and yet, somehow it has … Continued
A New Reality
SEPTEMBER 2023 – Time to step things up, summer vacation season is over. The pull of a new academic year never fails to bring clarity and an existential dread of sorts. Grab your number 2 pencils, pens, trapper keeper, and … Continued
The Water’s Edge
JULY 2023 – Stepping up takes on many forms. Maybe it means confronting a challenge that you’ve been putting off or going that extra mile to make certain that everything works out with your current objective. When you are faced … Continued
Unwinding the Beginning
APRIL 2023 – Complicated problems are at the heart of innovation. And the world is ripe with opportunities to innovate. But it is often hard to know where to begin, as it can be a tangled mess to get to … Continued
Undisturbed
FEBRUARY 2023 – World continues to turn, even in those quiet moments when everything seems so still and meditative. Our experience of time is often so uneven, weeks that feel like months, hours that feel like seconds. I recently re-watched … Continued
Benefit Analysis
NOVEMBER 2022 – Taking a really interesting course right now on cost-benefit analysis, has been solid to brush off my math skills for a change and fire up some excel spreadsheets. Sorting out the pros and cons in complex model … Continued
Embracing Your Roots
JULY 2022 – Where did it all begin for you? What’s your earliest memory? When you think of home, what immediately comes to mind? Day in and day out, these aren’t things I spend much time thinking about. But when … Continued
A Good Future
APRIL 2022 – Building a good future, where does one begin? There are certainly plenty of foundational elements that go into crafting things of value. If we are talking about building a residential building, literally the foundation is important, but … Continued
Branching Out
MARCH 2022 – What do you think the future holds? Do you see time and the future as a tree with many branching paths and possibilities? Looking at the past we can only ever see our own footprints in reverse … Continued
