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2019
129
Aug 26, 2019
What Change?
Aug 26, 2019
Aug 26, 2019
Why Do It?
Aug 26, 2019
Aug 27, 2019
Give Freely
Aug 27, 2019
Aug 28, 2019
Be Proud.
Aug 28, 2019
Aug 29, 2019
You Overthink. Stop.
Aug 29, 2019
Aug 30, 2019
Leave a Legacy
Aug 30, 2019
Aug 31, 2019
You Are Not Your Mind
Aug 31, 2019
Sep 1, 2019
Get Outside. Explore.
Sep 1, 2019
Sep 2, 2019
Happy Labor Day. A Story.
Sep 2, 2019
Sep 3, 2019
Who Are You For?
Sep 3, 2019
Sep 4, 2019
Share Your Story.
Sep 4, 2019
Sep 5, 2019
Share Our Story
Sep 5, 2019
Sep 6, 2019
Now What?
Sep 6, 2019
Sep 7, 2019
Agents. They Are Not Bad.
Sep 7, 2019
Sep 8, 2019
Agents Don't Own You.
Sep 8, 2019
Sep 9, 2019
Know the Terms.
Sep 9, 2019
Sep 10, 2019
Commissions are Fair
Sep 10, 2019
Sep 10, 2019
Who Pays What
Sep 10, 2019
Sep 11, 2019
Agents Need to be First.
Sep 11, 2019
Sep 13, 2019
Don't Get in the Middle
Sep 13, 2019
Sep 14, 2019
End Bad Relationships.
Sep 14, 2019
Sep 15, 2019
Start An Agency
Sep 15, 2019
Sep 16, 2019
Do You Need an Agent?
Sep 16, 2019
Sep 17, 2019
Connect Us.
Sep 17, 2019
Sep 18, 2019
Being Human is Simple.
Sep 18, 2019
Sep 19, 2019
The Future Possible
Sep 19, 2019
Sep 20, 2019
Hope.
Sep 20, 2019
Sep 21, 2019
Show Up. Every Day.
Sep 21, 2019
Sep 22, 2019
Now Is Your Time
Sep 22, 2019
Sep 23, 2019
One Small Step.
Sep 23, 2019
Sep 24, 2019
Know the Question.
Sep 24, 2019
Sep 25, 2019
Instructions Not Included
Sep 25, 2019
Sep 26, 2019
Don't Eat Tacos
Sep 26, 2019
Sep 27, 2019
Music is Not Self-Service
Sep 27, 2019
Sep 28, 2019
When It's Not Right
Sep 28, 2019
Sep 29, 2019
Stop Saying "Should"
Sep 29, 2019
Sep 30, 2019
Don't Be Fake.
Sep 30, 2019
Oct 1, 2019
Be Direct with Respect.
Oct 1, 2019
Oct 2, 2019
It's a Job
Oct 2, 2019
Oct 3, 2019
Love Your Career.
Oct 3, 2019
Oct 4, 2019
Live Your Vocation.
Oct 4, 2019
Oct 5, 2019
Be Invited Back.
Oct 5, 2019
Oct 5, 2019
"The Joker"
Oct 5, 2019
Oct 6, 2019
Find the Connectors.
Oct 6, 2019
Oct 7, 2019
Do You Stick?
Oct 7, 2019
Oct 8, 2019
Seneca on Caring for Others
Oct 8, 2019
Oct 9, 2019
Grant Yourself Some Grace
Oct 9, 2019
Oct 12, 2019
You're a Cog
Oct 12, 2019
Oct 12, 2019
They Don't Try to Suck.
Oct 12, 2019
Oct 13, 2019
Repeating is Fine.
Oct 13, 2019
Oct 14, 2019
Serve the Venue
Oct 14, 2019
Oct 15, 2019
Why Be Average?
Oct 15, 2019
Oct 16, 2019
On Impressions
Oct 16, 2019
Oct 17, 2019
Kindergarten Rules.
Oct 17, 2019
Oct 18, 2019
Embrace Failure.
Oct 18, 2019
Oct 19, 2019
Competitive Failure.
Oct 19, 2019
Oct 20, 2019
The Wrong Expectations.
Oct 20, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
Too Much Pride. Too Many Troubles.
Oct 21, 2019
Oct 22, 2019
I'm Not Always Right.
Oct 22, 2019
Oct 23, 2019
Let Life Get Ahead.
Oct 23, 2019
Oct 24, 2019
Looking at Others.
Oct 24, 2019
Oct 25, 2019
You Can't Ask Others. Be Accountable.
Oct 25, 2019
Oct 26, 2019
Choose to Learn.
Oct 26, 2019
Oct 27, 2019
Against the Grain.
Oct 27, 2019
Oct 28, 2019
Recreate the Memory
Oct 28, 2019
Oct 29, 2019
Stop Racing.
Oct 29, 2019
Oct 30, 2019
Safe Wins.
Oct 30, 2019
Oct 31, 2019
Enjoyment Wins.
Oct 31, 2019
Nov 1, 2019
Quality Over Quality.
Nov 1, 2019
Nov 2, 2019
Create Clarity.
Nov 2, 2019
Nov 3, 2019
Passion and Success.
Nov 3, 2019
Nov 4, 2019
Marketing
Nov 4, 2019
Nov 5, 2019
Learn to See. Learn to Speak.
Nov 5, 2019
Nov 6, 2019
Master the Medium.
Nov 6, 2019
Nov 7, 2019
The Idea.
Nov 7, 2019
Nov 8, 2019
Visualize Form.
Nov 8, 2019
Nov 9, 2019
Pick the Idiom.
Nov 9, 2019
Nov 10, 2019
Create Structure.
Nov 10, 2019
Nov 11, 2019
Apply Craft.
Nov 11, 2019
Nov 12, 2019
Surface Matters.
Nov 12, 2019
Nov 13, 2019
Art Requires Response.
Nov 13, 2019
Nov 14, 2019
Art: Steps, Balance, & Response.
Nov 14, 2019
Nov 15, 2019
Gather to Inspire.
Nov 15, 2019
Nov 16, 2019
The Chosen Ones.
Nov 16, 2019
Nov 17, 2019
The Excluded.
Nov 17, 2019
Nov 18, 2019
Size Matters.
Nov 18, 2019
Nov 19, 2019
Serve the Audience.
Nov 19, 2019
Nov 20, 2019
We are Equal.
Nov 20, 2019
Nov 21, 2019
Protect the Event.
Nov 21, 2019
Nov 22, 2019
Encourage Connection
Nov 22, 2019
Nov 23, 2019
Other Worlds.
Nov 23, 2019
Nov 24, 2019
Where's Dinner?
Nov 24, 2019
Nov 25, 2019
Assert Mission.
Nov 25, 2019
Nov 26, 2019
Come and See Me.
Nov 26, 2019
Nov 27, 2019
Family Dinner.
Nov 27, 2019
Nov 28, 2019
Gifts and Risk.
Nov 28, 2019
Nov 29, 2019
Embrace the End.
Nov 29, 2019
Nov 30, 2019
Gather the Tribe.
Nov 30, 2019
Dec 1, 2019
No Rules in Life.
Dec 1, 2019
Dec 2, 2019
You are a Bet.
Dec 2, 2019
2020
271
Jan 1, 2020
New Year, New Me.
Jan 1, 2020
Jan 2, 2020
Resistant You.
Jan 2, 2020
Jan 3, 2020
Friends of the Resistance.
Jan 3, 2020
Jan 4, 2020
Resistance Hides.
Jan 4, 2020
Jan 5, 2020
Others Don't Understand.
Jan 5, 2020
Jan 6, 2020
Beat Resistance.
Jan 6, 2020
Jan 7, 2020
Be a Pro.
Jan 7, 2020
Jan 8, 2020
Confrontation.
Jan 8, 2020
Jan 9, 2020
Inspired By the War
Jan 9, 2020
Jan 10, 2020
Where's the carrot?
Jan 10, 2020
Jan 14, 2020
One Way to Help Each Other Get Better Gigs
Jan 14, 2020
Jan 15, 2020
Everyone wants to start an agency.
Jan 15, 2020
Jan 15, 2020
Something New!
Jan 15, 2020
Jan 16, 2020
The Art of being an agent - is there one?
Jan 16, 2020
Jan 17, 2020
A New Idiom.
Jan 17, 2020
Jan 18, 2020
How much does your loyalty and exclusivity cost? Your agent knows.
Jan 18, 2020
Jan 19, 2020
A free trial and your agent have something in common. Do you know?
Jan 19, 2020
Jan 20, 2020
What will you do when you need to end it?
Jan 20, 2020
Mar 13, 2020
What have I been doing?
Mar 13, 2020
Mar 13, 2020
If you're trying to spread an idea, consider the coronavirus.
Mar 13, 2020
Mar 15, 2020
Do you need to talk to everybody in the room?
Mar 15, 2020
Mar 16, 2020
Why doesn't your job work for you?
Mar 16, 2020
Mar 17, 2020
The long game and limitations.
Mar 17, 2020
Mar 18, 2020
You don't have to play the game the way it's always played.
Mar 18, 2020
Mar 19, 2020
The language we use matters!
Mar 19, 2020
Mar 20, 2020
I use a pencil and paper to plan my life.
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 21, 2020
You're not going to win them all.
Mar 21, 2020
Mar 22, 2020
But, what if it works?
Mar 22, 2020
Mar 23, 2020
You have 1000 things to do but no time.
Mar 23, 2020
Mar 24, 2020
Is simple better?
Mar 24, 2020
Mar 25, 2020
Do you have permission to speak?
Mar 25, 2020
Mar 26, 2020
Is peace a primal emotion?
Mar 26, 2020
Mar 27, 2020
Does your resume tell a story?
Mar 27, 2020
Mar 28, 2020
What do kids, sticks, and a playful mind have anything to do with your career?
Mar 28, 2020
Mar 29, 2020
When you're smarter than Waze.
Mar 29, 2020
Mar 30, 2020
People make sense when you realize that they don't make sense.
Mar 30, 2020
Mar 31, 2020
Here's 1 reason why you probably don't have enough toilet paper.
Mar 31, 2020
Apr 1, 2020
Who stole the Van Gogh piece from the Dutch museum?
Apr 1, 2020
Apr 2, 2020
Do you think we've considered this effect of COVID-19?
Apr 2, 2020
Apr 3, 2020
For the eclectics that just never "fit in".
Apr 3, 2020
Apr 4, 2020
When you focus too much on it, you'll lose sight.
Apr 4, 2020
Apr 5, 2020
Why do I think working from home exposes your poor work ethic.
Apr 5, 2020
Apr 6, 2020
A hope for something better.
Apr 6, 2020
Apr 7, 2020
Why finding the average doesn't help anybody.
Apr 7, 2020
Apr 8, 2020
Why do we call recruitment a process? Why isn't it art?
Apr 8, 2020
Apr 9, 2020
There's one hidden stress you're probably missing but seeing every day.
Apr 9, 2020
Apr 10, 2020
Little, thoughtful details, add delight.
Apr 10, 2020
Apr 11, 2020
You don't need to gain weight by being bored - be productive!
Apr 11, 2020
Apr 12, 2020
Could you be losing productivity by not having a ritual?
Apr 12, 2020
Apr 13, 2020
What happened to the iPhone 5c?
Apr 13, 2020
Apr 14, 2020
How will you keep on track with your long-term goals?
Apr 14, 2020
Apr 15, 2020
Buying avocados is a good way to think about planning.
Apr 15, 2020
Apr 16, 2020
On Guilt.
Apr 16, 2020
Apr 17, 2020
How Easter dinner changed the way I think about winning and losing.
Apr 17, 2020
Apr 18, 2020
It's Saturday.
Apr 18, 2020
Apr 19, 2020
On Pause.
Apr 19, 2020
Apr 20, 2020
1+1=3 and if you don't believe me, ask Marilyn.
Apr 20, 2020
Apr 21, 2020
Do you know what the Connecticut colony's agent to London did? And why don't we know about him?
Apr 21, 2020
Apr 22, 2020
What does Dalgona Coffee having anything to do with survival?
Apr 22, 2020
Apr 23, 2020
When you've got nothing to say.
Apr 23, 2020
Apr 24, 2020
The orchid is nature's great deceiver. It's also rare.
Apr 24, 2020
Apr 25, 2020
Thoughts on sunrises.
Apr 25, 2020
Apr 26, 2020
Do you remember the moment you fell in love?
Apr 26, 2020
Apr 27, 2020
What do white coats, fancy yachts, and red pills have in common?
Apr 27, 2020
Apr 28, 2020
Why illogical thinking might lead to a better result.
Apr 28, 2020
Apr 29, 2020
You Need to Settle Down.
Apr 29, 2020
Apr 30, 2020
A Quick Question.
Apr 30, 2020
May 1, 2020
Gloomy and Gray Sky Days.
May 1, 2020
May 2, 2020
The Artisan Doer
May 2, 2020
May 3, 2020
What if you knew how your taxes were spent, would you pay more?
May 3, 2020
May 4, 2020
How the City of Milwaukee could make you want to pay a parking ticket?
May 4, 2020
May 5, 2020
The bathtub faucet broke, and water is everywhere!
May 5, 2020
May 6, 2020
In defense of the bold.
May 6, 2020
May 7, 2020
What's one lesson we can take from musicians?
May 7, 2020
May 8, 2020
Plan for decisions.
May 8, 2020
May 9, 2020
Don't try to be like everyone else.
May 9, 2020
May 10, 2020
Create and Embrace Tension.
May 10, 2020
May 11, 2020
What's next?
May 11, 2020
May 12, 2020
The power of hypothesis.
May 12, 2020
May 13, 2020
Are you trying to control too much?
May 13, 2020
May 14, 2020
If you're building something for someone.
May 14, 2020
May 15, 2020
There's something about the wind, you, and making a difference.
May 15, 2020
May 16, 2020
A short self-reflection.
May 16, 2020
May 17, 2020
I heard a fox scream.
May 17, 2020
May 18, 2020
A vision is what you see, and what you don't see.
May 18, 2020
May 19, 2020
Thoughts on culture.
May 19, 2020
May 20, 2020
Here is a method that's helping some people get back to normal.
May 20, 2020
May 21, 2020
Does it seem impossible to find growth when there's so much loss?
May 21, 2020
May 22, 2020
What I've learned from blogging every day.
May 22, 2020
May 23, 2020
Yesterday was tough.
May 23, 2020
May 24, 2020
The most important lesson I learned last week.
May 24, 2020
May 25, 2020
A quick thought on Memorial Day.
May 25, 2020
May 26, 2020
Help people to help them.
May 26, 2020
May 27, 2020
Mission alignment and doing things with intention.
May 27, 2020
May 28, 2020
What matters to you?
May 28, 2020
May 29, 2020
Thoughts on hope.
May 29, 2020
May 30, 2020
Keep your eyes open.
May 30, 2020
May 31, 2020
A letter to my Dad.
May 31, 2020
Jun 1, 2020
Thoughts on melted ice cream.
Jun 1, 2020
Jun 2, 2020
But, what is it for?
Jun 2, 2020
2021
62
Jan 1, 2021
Write the letter.
Jan 1, 2021
Jan 2, 2021
Inside the mind.
Jan 2, 2021
Jan 3, 2021
Play the gig.
Jan 3, 2021
Jan 4, 2021
The beauty of doing nothing.
Jan 4, 2021
Jan 5, 2021
A Cinderella Story.
Jan 5, 2021
Jan 6, 2021
Something from already.
Jan 6, 2021
Jan 7, 2021
The big struggle.
Jan 7, 2021
Jan 14, 2021
It's all an experiment.
Jan 14, 2021
Apr 11, 2021
Flipping Burgers for a Living.
Apr 11, 2021
Apr 12, 2021
Being the best in the world.
Apr 12, 2021
Apr 13, 2021
Do you honor failure?
Apr 13, 2021
Apr 14, 2021
What's the real challenge in making things happen for you or others?
Apr 14, 2021
Apr 15, 2021
The ROI of good management.
Apr 15, 2021
Apr 16, 2021
Lou Holtz, ND Football Coach, had it right.
Apr 16, 2021
Apr 17, 2021
How to be perfect in one easy step.
Apr 17, 2021
Apr 18, 2021
Is there a place for me?
Apr 18, 2021
Apr 19, 2021
Why don't others see you the way you see you?
Apr 19, 2021
Apr 20, 2021
Two Types of Winning for the Ultra-Competitive Person.
Apr 20, 2021
Apr 21, 2021
Create jazz to your most complicated problems.
Apr 21, 2021
Apr 22, 2021
Listen to the audience.
Apr 22, 2021
Apr 23, 2021
Don't miss the opportunity to be generous.
Apr 23, 2021
Apr 24, 2021
Feeling special.
Apr 24, 2021
Apr 25, 2021
Why you shouldn't protect your work.
Apr 25, 2021
Apr 26, 2021
Deciding you can.
Apr 26, 2021
Apr 27, 2021
I am not doing anything right.
Apr 27, 2021
Apr 28, 2021
Currency
Apr 28, 2021
Apr 29, 2021
The day I fire myself.
Apr 29, 2021
Apr 30, 2021
The flavor of the day.
Apr 30, 2021
May 1, 2021
It's not the work day.
May 1, 2021
May 2, 2021
Stop sweating; you've got the gig.
May 2, 2021
May 3, 2021
Are you living life to the fullest? And what does that even mean?
May 3, 2021
May 4, 2021
You've got nowhere to go, but here.
May 4, 2021
May 5, 2021
Assume the best.
May 5, 2021
May 6, 2021
The best thing about theater.
May 6, 2021
May 7, 2021
The will to becoming.
May 7, 2021
Nov 28, 2021
The lead up is always worse than the first note.
Nov 28, 2021
Nov 29, 2021
What do you consume?
Nov 29, 2021
Nov 30, 2021
You are creative.
Nov 30, 2021
Dec 1, 2021
Can I still be happy?
Dec 1, 2021
Dec 2, 2021
Does the past portend the future?
Dec 2, 2021
Dec 3, 2021
A way.
Dec 3, 2021
Dec 4, 2021
How a single leaf can teach you about what's next.
Dec 4, 2021
Dec 5, 2021
How do you start?
Dec 5, 2021
Dec 6, 2021
Spending time alone.
Dec 6, 2021
Dec 7, 2021
What's the legacy you're leaving behind? Is it the one you want?
Dec 7, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
What stands in the way, becomes the way.
Dec 8, 2021
Dec 9, 2021
The elephant and the room.
Dec 9, 2021
Dec 10, 2021
What are you unwilling to face?
Dec 10, 2021
Dec 11, 2021
If you want to feel more confidence, decide more things.
Dec 11, 2021
Dec 12, 2021
What great thing could you have done?
Dec 12, 2021
Dec 15, 2021
Having said what I said, choose wisely.
Dec 15, 2021
Dec 16, 2021
Thoughts on hiking and the holidays.
Dec 16, 2021
Dec 17, 2021
When we decided to start.
Dec 17, 2021
Dec 18, 2021
Let Life Get Ahead... a bit.
Dec 18, 2021
Dec 19, 2021
Did you get what you hoped for?
Dec 19, 2021
Dec 20, 2021
Let it go.
Dec 20, 2021
Dec 21, 2021
Understanding life through music.
Dec 21, 2021
Dec 22, 2021
Can you really read people?
Dec 22, 2021
Dec 23, 2021
What if it was simpler?
Dec 23, 2021
Dec 24, 2021
Doing the "right" work is what matters.
Dec 24, 2021
Dec 25, 2021
A useful reminder - it's neither good nor bad.
Dec 25, 2021
Dec 26, 2021
Be back in a jiffy!
Dec 26, 2021
2022
357
Jan 1, 2022
How to practice?
Jan 1, 2022
Jan 2, 2022
An Ode to the Seafarers
Jan 2, 2022
Jan 3, 2022
A note for the aspiring people manager.
Jan 3, 2022
Jan 4, 2022
In order to color in the lines, you need the lines.
Jan 4, 2022
Jan 5, 2022
What is really most important?
Jan 5, 2022
Jan 6, 2022
How to crush obstacles and be productive like jazz musicians.
Jan 6, 2022
Jan 7, 2022
Better escapism with an ancient 3-step process as told by dead smart guy.
Jan 7, 2022
Jan 8, 2022
The outline helped.
Jan 8, 2022
Jan 9, 2022
Did I sleep better after outlining the problem?
Jan 9, 2022
Jan 10, 2022
That moment when.
Jan 10, 2022
Jan 11, 2022
The first rule of music is...
Jan 11, 2022
Jan 12, 2022
The life cycle of a riff...
Jan 12, 2022
Jan 13, 2022
An improv acting skill you can use now to get over any problem fast.
Jan 13, 2022
Jan 14, 2022
Who is this blog for?
Jan 14, 2022
Jan 15, 2022
Channels and bad coffee.
Jan 15, 2022
Jan 16, 2022
Work that matters is not a life mission.
Jan 16, 2022
Jan 17, 2022
How do we learn how to learn?
Jan 17, 2022
Jan 18, 2022
Is the future our business?
Jan 18, 2022
Jan 19, 2022
Knowing when to quit.
Jan 19, 2022
Jan 20, 2022
Taking Time Not to Think
Jan 20, 2022
Jan 21, 2022
Are people really straightforward with themselves?
Jan 21, 2022
Jan 22, 2022
8 steps to achieving your goal inspired by an epidemiologist
Jan 22, 2022
Jan 23, 2022
What to do when you fall.
Jan 23, 2022
Jan 24, 2022
How to fail.
Jan 24, 2022
Jan 25, 2022
Are you creating an institution or a studio?
Jan 25, 2022
Jan 26, 2022
I had a moment, and this tactic helped.
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 27, 2022
What would happen if we stopped squeezing the sand out of our hands?
Jan 27, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
Shall we dance?
Jan 28, 2022
Jan 29, 2022
But how will you use that control?
Jan 29, 2022
Jan 30, 2022
As long as we end together.
Jan 30, 2022
Jan 31, 2022
The ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything.
Jan 31, 2022
Feb 1, 2022
A bit of an anxious feeling today... but not a bad one.
Feb 1, 2022
Feb 2, 2022
When Things Get Off
Feb 2, 2022
Feb 3, 2022
Thoughts on leadership - science and art.
Feb 3, 2022
Feb 4, 2022
What would happen if we stop taking ourselves so seriously?
Feb 4, 2022
Feb 5, 2022
Well, I'm from Boston.
Feb 5, 2022
Feb 6, 2022
Why hold back?
Feb 6, 2022
Feb 7, 2022
Winning at what cost?
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 8, 2022
Always remember...
Feb 8, 2022
Feb 9, 2022
Do you think you're special?
Feb 9, 2022
Feb 10, 2022
The clutter and the focus.
Feb 10, 2022
Feb 11, 2022
Just in case...
Feb 11, 2022
Feb 13, 2022
How might you discipline your mind?
Feb 13, 2022
Feb 14, 2022
Know the rules of the game before you decide to play.
Feb 14, 2022
Feb 15, 2022
Leaving the game.
Feb 15, 2022
Feb 16, 2022
That moment when.
Feb 16, 2022
Feb 17, 2022
Truth and Fear - Better Together.
Feb 17, 2022
Feb 18, 2022
Why hold back?
Feb 18, 2022
Feb 19, 2022
Winning the Good Life.
Feb 19, 2022
Feb 20, 2022
A recap of winning and life.
Feb 20, 2022
Feb 21, 2022
As you start the week...
Feb 21, 2022
Feb 22, 2022
How to keep a team together
Feb 22, 2022
Feb 23, 2022
What are we on the hook for?
Feb 23, 2022
Feb 24, 2022
What is the better question?
Feb 24, 2022
Feb 25, 2022
Are we teasing out the right thing?
Feb 25, 2022
Feb 26, 2022
What is skepticism really?
Feb 26, 2022
Feb 27, 2022
The Question Connection
Feb 27, 2022
Feb 28, 2022
Thoughts on creating team culture.
Feb 28, 2022
Mar 1, 2022
How to pivot?
Mar 1, 2022
Mar 2, 2022
Making more sense of our thoughts.
Mar 2, 2022
Mar 3, 2022
We have been here before...
Mar 3, 2022
Mar 4, 2022
I wrote to Steven about how Seneca wrote to Lucilius
Mar 4, 2022
Mar 5, 2022
Forgive the past.
Mar 5, 2022
Mar 6, 2022
What you won't do...
Mar 6, 2022
Mar 7, 2022
What if we refused the status quo?
Mar 7, 2022
Mar 8, 2022
On doing what you can now.
Mar 8, 2022
Mar 9, 2022
What if it's our perceptions of things that hurts us?
Mar 9, 2022
Mar 10, 2022
The center of the storm - the great calm of being a Music Director
Mar 10, 2022
Mar 11, 2022
Can you be your own best friend?
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 12, 2022
Now what?
Mar 12, 2022
Mar 13, 2022
Under pressure.
Mar 13, 2022
Mar 14, 2022
How to appreciate people more fully.
Mar 14, 2022
Mar 15, 2022
More on defining the fear
Mar 15, 2022
Mar 16, 2022
What do you say "yes" to?
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 17, 2022
The most strategic decision you will make this week.
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 18, 2022
How to help people.
Mar 18, 2022
Mar 19, 2022
How to discipline the mind.
Mar 19, 2022
Mar 20, 2022
The Practice
Mar 20, 2022
Mar 21, 2022
The light bulb moment
Mar 21, 2022
Mar 22, 2022
Are you playing your hand the best you can?
Mar 22, 2022
Mar 23, 2022
What are you committing your team to?
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 24, 2022
What have you learned?
Mar 24, 2022
Mar 25, 2022
Heading a call.
Mar 25, 2022
Mar 26, 2022
You're going to get yourself in trouble doing this..
Mar 26, 2022
Mar 27, 2022
How to use questions as a servant leader.
Mar 27, 2022
Mar 28, 2022
On being missed.
Mar 28, 2022
Mar 29, 2022
Your difficult questions need time and space.
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 30, 2022
Why not move?
Mar 30, 2022
Mar 31, 2022
The process matters
Mar 31, 2022
Apr 1, 2022
How, what ifs, and improvising inside the process.
Apr 1, 2022
Apr 2, 2022
Understand things.
Apr 2, 2022
Apr 3, 2022
Old and Vintage
Apr 3, 2022
Apr 4, 2022
What "Why" did for me and it might do for you.
Apr 4, 2022
Apr 5, 2022
A better way to network.
Apr 5, 2022
Apr 6, 2022
Onboarding
Apr 6, 2022
Apr 7, 2022
Give yourself time.
Apr 7, 2022
Apr 8, 2022
Whatever can happen today can happen at any time.
Apr 8, 2022
Apr 9, 2022
Childlike curiosity.
Apr 9, 2022
Apr 10, 2022
Just a little bit better.
Apr 10, 2022
Apr 11, 2022
Creating space for curiosity
Apr 11, 2022
2023
363
Jan 1, 2023
What do you want today to be about?
Jan 1, 2023
Jan 2, 2023
A look back.
Jan 2, 2023
Jan 3, 2023
Alchemists.
Jan 3, 2023
Jan 4, 2023
Benefits of a decision journal.
Jan 4, 2023
Jan 5, 2023
Big, small, big, and the secret to happiness.
Jan 5, 2023
Jan 6, 2023
Is 10% less wet worth it?
Jan 6, 2023
Jan 7, 2023
Sticking it out.
Jan 7, 2023
Jan 8, 2023
Prep'ing for a gig.
Jan 8, 2023
Jan 9, 2023
You're hearing "why" but what's being asked is "what"
Jan 9, 2023
Jan 10, 2023
When you're in the desert
Jan 10, 2023
Jan 11, 2023
Weighing moves.
Jan 11, 2023
Jan 12, 2023
Are we stopping enough?
Jan 12, 2023
Jan 13, 2023
Design
Jan 13, 2023
Jan 14, 2023
Being kind to yourself.
Jan 14, 2023
Jan 15, 2023
It's not really about me.
Jan 15, 2023
Jan 16, 2023
All black.
Jan 16, 2023
Jan 17, 2023
Somebody else's child.
Jan 17, 2023
Jan 18, 2023
The future belongs to God.
Jan 18, 2023
Jan 19, 2023
I’m tired.
Jan 19, 2023
Jan 20, 2023
Courage and Bravery
Jan 20, 2023
Jan 21, 2023
The morning after.
Jan 21, 2023
Jan 22, 2023
Every day is unday.
Jan 22, 2023
Jan 23, 2023
To play is to serve.
Jan 23, 2023
Jan 24, 2023
Constraints.
Jan 24, 2023
Jan 25, 2023
Team building.
Jan 25, 2023
Jan 26, 2023
Three delusions
Jan 26, 2023
Jan 27, 2023
Embrace constraints.
Jan 27, 2023
Jan 28, 2023
I think we underestimate winter.
Jan 28, 2023
Jan 29, 2023
Trade space for time.
Jan 29, 2023
Jan 30, 2023
Who is your real enemy?
Jan 30, 2023
Jan 31, 2023
Silos aren't real.
Jan 31, 2023
Feb 1, 2023
Hold it in front of you.
Feb 1, 2023
Feb 2, 2023
How much more?
Feb 2, 2023
Feb 3, 2023
Feeling anxious?
Feb 3, 2023
Feb 4, 2023
Riding a bike.
Feb 4, 2023
Feb 5, 2023
The eagle and our games.
Feb 5, 2023
Feb 6, 2023
A thought on knots.
Feb 6, 2023
Feb 7, 2023
Go down the winding road
Feb 7, 2023
Feb 8, 2023
Plan for chaos, and be like water.
Feb 8, 2023
Feb 9, 2023
Reinforce the status quo.
Feb 9, 2023
Feb 10, 2023
The reason we don't end things well.
Feb 10, 2023
Feb 11, 2023
Taking on emotions.
Feb 11, 2023
Feb 12, 2023
What we wish
Feb 12, 2023
Feb 13, 2023
Take advice from the person who made a urinal famous.
Feb 13, 2023
Feb 14, 2023
Mirrors.
Feb 14, 2023
Feb 15, 2023
Avoid the moral war.
Feb 15, 2023
Feb 16, 2023
A meditation.
Feb 16, 2023
Feb 17, 2023
Thoughts on taking time.
Feb 17, 2023
Feb 18, 2023
Taking things personally.
Feb 18, 2023
Feb 19, 2023
A self-talk that might help.
Feb 19, 2023
Feb 20, 2023
Effect vs Affect
Feb 20, 2023
Feb 21, 2023
Sitzfleisch
Feb 21, 2023
Feb 22, 2023
Saying no.
Feb 22, 2023
Feb 23, 2023
You've got this.
Feb 23, 2023
Feb 24, 2023
What's the worst fate?
Feb 24, 2023
Feb 25, 2023
The gut punch.
Feb 25, 2023
Feb 26, 2023
The sting.
Feb 26, 2023
Feb 27, 2023
We are what they grow beyond.
Feb 27, 2023
Feb 28, 2023
If you think you're lost...
Feb 28, 2023
Mar 1, 2023
Against the gambler.
Mar 1, 2023
Mar 2, 2023
Where do we see improvement?
Mar 2, 2023
Mar 3, 2023
Who's noticing?
Mar 3, 2023
Mar 4, 2023
Accommodate and adapt.
Mar 4, 2023
Mar 5, 2023
A year later and a re-think of an important lesson.
Mar 5, 2023
Mar 6, 2023
We're all just trying to do our best.
Mar 6, 2023
Mar 7, 2023
Popper's first conclusion on confirmation bias
Mar 7, 2023
Mar 8, 2023
Mistakes versus talent.
Mar 8, 2023
Mar 9, 2023
What's your tabula rasa?
Mar 9, 2023
Mar 10, 2023
The smallest viable step.
Mar 10, 2023
Mar 11, 2023
Are you giving yourself enough time to think?
Mar 11, 2023
Mar 12, 2023
How did we get to this place?
Mar 12, 2023
Mar 13, 2023
Intellectualizing fear
Mar 13, 2023
Mar 14, 2023
Quit vs Grit
Mar 14, 2023
Mar 15, 2023
Save as Draft
Mar 15, 2023
Mar 16, 2023
Thoughts on vibrations.
Mar 16, 2023
Mar 17, 2023
Complaining
Mar 17, 2023
Mar 18, 2023
15 times.
Mar 18, 2023
Mar 19, 2023
The baby and the bath water.
Mar 19, 2023
Mar 20, 2023
The stories we tell ourselves.
Mar 20, 2023
Mar 21, 2023
What did you think of my show?
Mar 21, 2023
Mar 22, 2023
The years teach much.
Mar 22, 2023
Mar 23, 2023
Thoughts on confrontation.
Mar 23, 2023
Mar 24, 2023
What makes war inevitable?
Mar 24, 2023
Mar 25, 2023
The Currency of Credibility
Mar 25, 2023
Mar 26, 2023
Adobo
Mar 26, 2023
Mar 27, 2023
Learning how to play piano.
Mar 27, 2023
Mar 28, 2023
Toilet paper 2 years ago
Mar 28, 2023
Mar 29, 2023
Listening vs Playing
Mar 29, 2023
Mar 30, 2023
Are we absorbing enough?
Mar 30, 2023
Mar 31, 2023
Need to keep moving.
Mar 31, 2023
Apr 1, 2023
The creative process.
Apr 1, 2023
Apr 2, 2023
Earn your ticket.
Apr 2, 2023
Apr 3, 2023
Always 100
Apr 3, 2023
Apr 4, 2023
Culture
Apr 4, 2023
Apr 5, 2023
A year later
Apr 5, 2023
Apr 6, 2023
The Despedida
Apr 6, 2023
Apr 7, 2023
Friends
Apr 7, 2023
Apr 8, 2023
A definition for wisdom
Apr 8, 2023
Apr 9, 2023
A way to agree.
Apr 9, 2023
Apr 10, 2023
Revisiting Hope
Apr 10, 2023
2024
365
Jan 1, 2024
Happy 2024
Jan 1, 2024
Jan 2, 2024
Two tough conversations.
Jan 2, 2024
Jan 3, 2024
Steal, steal, steal.
Jan 3, 2024
Jan 4, 2024
A Musical Servant
Jan 4, 2024
Jan 5, 2024
Do the hard thing first.
Jan 5, 2024
Jan 6, 2024
Who are you showing up as?
Jan 6, 2024
Jan 7, 2024
I like Brian's quote.
Jan 7, 2024
Jan 8, 2024
Do people understand you?
Jan 8, 2024
Jan 9, 2024
Newsflash - your mood matters.
Jan 9, 2024
Jan 10, 2024
Thoughts on development
Jan 10, 2024
Jan 11, 2024
"A Calendar of Wisdom" on time.
Jan 11, 2024
Jan 12, 2024
The seven social sins
Jan 12, 2024
Jan 13, 2024
Preparing to leave.
Jan 13, 2024
Jan 14, 2024
Trying some older books out.
Jan 14, 2024
Jan 15, 2024
Founding on the people and "Game of Thrones"
Jan 15, 2024
Jan 16, 2024
It's going ot be okay.
Jan 16, 2024
Jan 17, 2024
Helping to relieve stress.
Jan 17, 2024
Jan 18, 2024
Consider not fighting fire with fire
Jan 18, 2024
Jan 19, 2024
Are you creative?
Jan 19, 2024
Jan 20, 2024
The best laid plans
Jan 20, 2024
Jan 21, 2024
Bad data.
Jan 21, 2024
Jan 22, 2024
I don't know.
Jan 22, 2024
Jan 23, 2024
Food markets as a way to judge taste.
Jan 23, 2024
Jan 24, 2024
Our appetite for disappointment.
Jan 24, 2024
Jan 25, 2024
Choose less.
Jan 25, 2024
Jan 27, 2024
Cars and parking spaces.
Jan 27, 2024
Jan 28, 2024
Coffee and cool breezes.
Jan 28, 2024
Jan 29, 2024
Heading back
Jan 29, 2024
Jan 29, 2024
Silence on the elevator.
Jan 29, 2024
Jan 30, 2024
Leaders, watch out for overreaction
Jan 30, 2024
Jan 31, 2024
Self-advocacy
Jan 31, 2024
Feb 1, 2024
The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders.
Feb 1, 2024
Feb 2, 2024
Well I'm back stateside
Feb 2, 2024
Feb 3, 2024
The things you shouldn't fight.
Feb 3, 2024
Feb 4, 2024
How do you make your head blank?
Feb 4, 2024
Feb 5, 2024
The case for your best next step
Feb 5, 2024
Feb 6, 2024
The realization you have enough
Feb 6, 2024
Feb 7, 2024
Coordinating
Feb 7, 2024
Feb 8, 2024
Engagement as feedback.
Feb 8, 2024
Feb 9, 2024
It's never greener.
Feb 9, 2024
Feb 10, 2024
Thoughts on the moral war post
Feb 10, 2024
Feb 11, 2024
The wake up call I needed
Feb 11, 2024
Feb 12, 2024
Own your choices.
Feb 12, 2024
Feb 13, 2024
Releasing yourself.
Feb 13, 2024
Feb 14, 2024
What is the value of an hour?
Feb 14, 2024
Feb 15, 2024
Work requires a sacrifice.
Feb 15, 2024
Feb 16, 2024
Thoughts on friends and time.
Feb 16, 2024
Feb 17, 2024
For as much noise as there is out there.
Feb 17, 2024
Feb 18, 2024
An exercise for leaders.
Feb 18, 2024
Feb 19, 2024
Interesting question
Feb 19, 2024
Feb 20, 2024
What's more valuable?
Feb 20, 2024
Feb 21, 2024
Hire the human capital you need a year from now.
Feb 21, 2024
Feb 22, 2024
Reflecting on feedback I shared to a teammate.
Feb 22, 2024
Feb 23, 2024
Uncertainty.
Feb 23, 2024
Feb 24, 2024
Yesterday's gig.
Feb 24, 2024
Feb 25, 2024
Thoughts on exploration
Feb 25, 2024
Feb 26, 2024
Movie theater popcorn.
Feb 26, 2024
Feb 27, 2024
Quit books.
Feb 27, 2024
Feb 28, 2024
"I don't care."
Feb 28, 2024
Feb 29, 2024
Most underrated thing I've done all year
Feb 29, 2024
Mar 1, 2024
A musing about customer success.
Mar 1, 2024
Mar 2, 2024
Coin flips.
Mar 2, 2024
Mar 3, 2024
Invest in yourself
Mar 3, 2024
Mar 4, 2024
Improvements from last year.
Mar 4, 2024
Mar 5, 2024
Interesting thought on pain.
Mar 5, 2024
Mar 6, 2024
You need to try and figure this out first.
Mar 6, 2024
Mar 7, 2024
Fighting the good fight.
Mar 7, 2024
Mar 8, 2024
Thoughts on fasting
Mar 8, 2024
Mar 9, 2024
We’re absurd.
Mar 9, 2024
Mar 11, 2024
You're always looking up at the cliff.
Mar 11, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
Questions for leaders to ask.
Mar 12, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
Statements leaders ought to say a bit more.
Mar 12, 2024
Mar 13, 2024
Meetings
Mar 13, 2024
Mar 14, 2024
Thoughts on learning.
Mar 14, 2024
Mar 15, 2024
Patience and Persistence.
Mar 15, 2024
Mar 17, 2024
Buy vs Rent?
Mar 17, 2024
Mar 17, 2024
Programming patches.
Mar 17, 2024
Mar 18, 2024
Interesting thought on handwriting music
Mar 18, 2024
Mar 19, 2024
It might not be wrong, it just looks different where I sit.
Mar 19, 2024
Mar 20, 2024
Scoring processes
Mar 20, 2024
Mar 21, 2024
Show your work
Mar 21, 2024
Mar 22, 2024
Word on assumptions.
Mar 22, 2024
Mar 23, 2024
I don't think there's a better feeling
Mar 23, 2024
Mar 24, 2024
how much is too authentic?
Mar 24, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
Creating clarity.
Mar 25, 2024
Mar 26, 2024
Leadership thought: Interview your would-be boss.
Mar 26, 2024
Mar 27, 2024
Leadership thought - manager reviews.
Mar 27, 2024
Mar 28, 2024
Leadership thought - output.
Mar 28, 2024
Mar 29, 2024
Is life fair?
Mar 29, 2024
Mar 30, 2024
All the running you can do.
Mar 30, 2024
Mar 31, 2024
Noted.
Mar 31, 2024
Apr 1, 2024
Leadership thought - firing
Apr 1, 2024
Apr 2, 2024
Time management
Apr 2, 2024
Apr 3, 2024
Leadership thought - performance reviews.
Apr 3, 2024
Apr 4, 2024
Do I still believe in competitive failure?
Apr 4, 2024
Apr 5, 2024
School district funding surveys.
Apr 5, 2024
Apr 6, 2024
Leadership thought - embrace the absurd.
Apr 6, 2024
Apr 7, 2024
Leadership feedback - in balance.
Apr 7, 2024
Apr 8, 2024
What to do when interests are wide and varied?
Apr 8, 2024
Apr 9, 2024
A random observation about the news.
Apr 9, 2024
2025
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Jan 1, 2025
Happy New Year
Jan 1, 2025
Jan 2, 2025
The speed limit of being
Jan 2, 2025
Jan 3, 2025
Robin Hanson ponders why we should overthrow the Empire in the first place?
Jan 3, 2025
Jan 4, 2025
Scarcity in the news
Jan 4, 2025
Jan 5, 2025
Customer service quick thought
Jan 5, 2025
Jan 6, 2025
Three little reminders that I really should print out
Jan 6, 2025
Jan 7, 2025
There's something wrong in everything
Jan 7, 2025
Jan 8, 2025
Advocacy
Jan 8, 2025
Jan 9, 2025
Mid week post break reflection
Jan 9, 2025
Jan 10, 2025
Solve for the equilibrium, claims about claims edition
Jan 10, 2025
Jan 11, 2025
Delaying decision making
Jan 11, 2025
Jan 12, 2025
Just because we can does it mean we should
Jan 12, 2025
Jan 13, 2025
The tradeoff of can and should
Jan 13, 2025
Jan 14, 2025
Perhaps we are making it about ourselves
Jan 14, 2025
Jan 15, 2025
A post from X, Cairo, and systems
Jan 15, 2025
Jan 16, 2025
Women composers and valuing historical tradeoffs today
Jan 16, 2025
Jan 17, 2025
My sister says I'm always right
Jan 17, 2025
Jan 18, 2025
Emergence of gangs
Jan 18, 2025
Jan 19, 2025
The great beigification
Jan 19, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
Reducing the tendency and reinforcing the loops
Jan 20, 2025
Jan 21, 2025
Cows, gallstones, and systems
Jan 21, 2025
Jan 22, 2025
Something about the cold
Jan 22, 2025
Jan 23, 2025
A letter to hospital systems
Jan 23, 2025
Jan 24, 2025
Keeping things in perspective
Jan 24, 2025
Jan 25, 2025
On how you see systems
Jan 25, 2025
Jan 26, 2025
On approaching the weird with a cheerful heart
Jan 26, 2025
Jan 27, 2025
Ancient pain
Jan 27, 2025
Jan 28, 2025
High School Superforecasters We Are Not
Jan 28, 2025
Jan 29, 2025
Joinining in the joke
Jan 29, 2025
Jan 30, 2025
The insanity of focus
Jan 30, 2025
Jan 31, 2025
An interesting thought on Catholicism and belief change
Jan 31, 2025
Feb 1, 2025
The Lack of MECE on Medical Forms
Feb 1, 2025
Feb 2, 2025
Saving your work
Feb 2, 2025
Feb 3, 2025
Clicker game
Feb 3, 2025
Feb 4, 2025
Thoughts on free lunch
Feb 4, 2025
Feb 5, 2025
What will trample your happiness?
Feb 5, 2025
Feb 5, 2025
More free lunch - meeting edition.
Feb 5, 2025
Feb 7, 2025
Thoughts on the unilaterial
Feb 7, 2025
Feb 8, 2025
Thoughts on passing
Feb 8, 2025
Feb 9, 2025
I'm craving the moments
Feb 9, 2025
Feb 10, 2025
Coin flips are not 50/50
Feb 10, 2025
Feb 11, 2025
The overwhelm re-surfaces, time to keep things in check
Feb 11, 2025
Feb 12, 2025
Thoughts on a Jesuit education and Changing the World
Feb 12, 2025
Feb 13, 2025
Thoughts on stopping to laugh
Feb 13, 2025
Feb 14, 2025
Interesting thought about the central limit theorem
Feb 14, 2025
Feb 15, 2025
An odd sleepless
Feb 15, 2025
Feb 16, 2025
Beautiful and sustainable waste
Feb 16, 2025
Feb 17, 2025
Watch out for bad listeners
Feb 17, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
Why do we need another Jurassic movie?
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
Stupid silliness
Feb 19, 2025
Feb 20, 2025
The one pot meal that is British place names
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Travel tips from Kevin Kelly and Me
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 22, 2025
Science is real thought
Feb 22, 2025
Feb 22, 2025
Warm and fuzzies of a different kind
Feb 22, 2025
Feb 23, 2025
Prediction market thoughts
Feb 23, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
“Resident Alien”
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
Interesting observer effects at Froedtert
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 26, 2025
I’m not done with the sign yet
Feb 26, 2025
Feb 27, 2025
Why would I?
Feb 27, 2025
Feb 28, 2025
I discovered "Chicken Shop Date"
Feb 28, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
Over analysis irony
Mar 3, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
Bad behavior and the self
Mar 3, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
Understanding today
Mar 3, 2025
Mar 4, 2025
Some lessons from "The Prince" that are worth remembering
Mar 4, 2025
Mar 5, 2025
P(D|H,X) v P(H|D,X)
Mar 5, 2025
Mar 6, 2025
"Could you lie down and take a rest on a sidewalk?"
Mar 6, 2025
Mar 7, 2025
Sisyphus with purpose
Mar 7, 2025
Mar 8, 2025
There exists a balance
Mar 8, 2025
Mar 9, 2025
“My Octopus Teacher”
Mar 9, 2025
Mar 10, 2025
ChatGPT reviewed my blog
Mar 10, 2025
Mar 12, 2025
Thoughts on negotiation
Mar 12, 2025
Mar 12, 2025
Claims about age and hospital delirium
Mar 12, 2025