Writing on Enterprise Transformation & AI Governance.
- October 17, 2026
The Job Requirement You Learn About After the Interview
When an unrequested demonstration decides a hire, candidates are judged on guessing the test. If it carries weight, put it in the invitation.
- October 13, 2026
Indispensable Is What We Call a Bottleneck When We Like the Person
Organizations preach teamwork but reward the person everyone depends on. What if the better measure is what a team can do without you?
- October 7, 2026
A Case for Nicknames
My legal name is Reginal. The people who know me say Soup. On names, identity, and why "preferred name" is the wrong question to ask at work.
- September 30, 2026
What Do You Owe the Place You "Escaped"?
Success can change your ZIP code and your options. It doesn't change what you owe the people who never got the same choices.
- September 24, 2026
The Weight of the Microphone: What We Know vs. What We Believe
Influence raises the standard. Leaders owe their audiences a clear line between what they know, what they believe, and what they don't know yet.
- September 21, 2026
The Product Review Nobody Ran
Recruiters closed twice as many hires while hiring still got slower. A feature-by-feature audit of what's actually broken, and what the evidence supports.
- September 17, 2026
I Won't Abandon You. And I Won't Make You Prove It.
A tour lineup change raises a harder question about friendship: not whether you'd stand beside someone, but how far you'd go to spare them the choice.
- September 16, 2026
Who Benefits from the AI Slowdown?
The AI slowdown is not a slowdown in AI. It is a shift to selective realization, and the winners are whoever controls the complements.
- August 15, 2026
The Four Sentences Nobody Reads
Referral programs still route candidates past the pile. The recommendation inside them stops there, and nobody owns making sure it arrives.
- August 13, 2026
The Story Chicago Keeps Starting in the Middle
Chicago keeps responding to teen gatherings with curfews while overlooking the disinvestment and lost opportunities behind the recurring crisis.
- August 11, 2026
Nobody Asked What the Saved Time Was For.
AI is compressing tasks across the enterprise, but time saved becomes strategic capacity only when leadership redesigns work, data, and authority.
- August 4, 2026
How We Broke Hiring and How We Can Rebuild It
Employers can't find talent. Candidates can't get a conversation. Both problems come from the same broken hiring system — and it can be rebuilt.