Writing
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August 2026
Fifteen Years, Not Five
A colleague's advice to think in fifteen-year horizons, not five, and an old mantra about learning versus earning, on what actually makes work worth doing.
03
July 2026
Other People's Stories, and the One I Keep Not Writing
Helping brilliant people find the story hidden in their work has been genuinely rewarding. It's also taught me something about what gets lost when a good sentence has to survive the process.
02
June 2026
The Other AI
Steve Wozniak got a standing ovation for reminding graduates they have "actual intelligence." Here's why pairing the two AIs — human and artificial — produces more creativity than either one alone.
01
May 2026
Ingenuity Is the Only Resource We've Never Run Out Of
Climate change, economic stagnation, and political division are usually framed as scarcity problems. They're not. They're ingenuity problems.