Writing & Ideas
Notes on leading, growing, and getting unstuck.
Sometimes about work. Sometimes about life. Other times about the strange and funny parts in between.
Some Deaths Get Grief. Others Get Applause.
What Dolly Parton’s death, and several others, are teaching me about grief, gravity, and why we sort the dead before we let ourselves feel anything for them.
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Great At The Thing. Bad At The Business.
What one company, an unread book, and one unforgettable speech still teach me about mastery, letting go, and the business of the thing.
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The Grace KPI Dashboard
What a colleague’s joke is teaching me about grace, and the moment it stops protecting people and starts protecting problems.
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Yours to Win. Yours to Lose.
What watching a client close in on the deal of their careers is teaching me about patience, restraint, and knowing when you’ve already won.
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Welcome to Potland
What a family vacation is teaching me about acceptance, accountability, and what we owe each other.
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The Conversation Most People Keep Avoiding
The conversation you keep postponing is probably the most important one you can have right now.
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Make It Easy for Them to Say Yes
The burden of proof is on you. Not them.
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There’s a Third Job in Sales Nobody Talks About
Most teams nail the first two. The third one is where the real money is.
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Availability Over Ability
The most important thing you can offer someone right now is your presence.
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The Conversation Worth Having
Everyone’s talking about AI. Almost no one’s saying the real thing out loud. AI Assembly is the room where that changes.
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The Difference Between Being Stuck and Being Slow
Slow is a pace problem. Stuck is a clarity problem. They feel similar from the inside but require completely different responses.
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What Business Coaching Actually Is (And What It Isn’t)
The best athletes in the world all have coaches. So do the best founders. What the work actually looks like, once you get past the assumptions.
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Is Listening Cool?
We’ve turned disagreement into a sport. Our muscles for arguing got strong while our muscles for listening got weak. A 30-day challenge to change that.
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Sales Isn’t Complicated. We Just Make It That Way.
Sales comes back to two responsibilities. Create pipeline. Close deals. Everything else is just how you do it.
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A Conversation Pattern Most People Don’t Notice
Two people, same words, same room — and two completely different conversations. Support first. Explanation later.
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Your First Job Is Where Your Reputation Starts
A letter to new grads stepping into the workforce. Twelve things I wish someone had told me more clearly when I was starting out.
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AI Assembly: The Human Conversation Around AI
A recurring, in-person gathering for people who want to think more clearly about life in the age of AI. The value is the room.
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Moms Keep Going
The small, constant things nobody sees. It’s not the big sacrifices. It’s the quiet decision, again and again, to keep going.
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Next Move Advising
A structured advisory engagement for high performers at career and life inflection points. Most of them don’t need help finding a job. They need help thinking.
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