Something doesn’t quite add up. The tone of our public discourse feels harsher, more absolute, more hostile than the reality I experience in everyday life.
Thinking in public. Summing what matters. The current debate over birthright citizenship feels, on the surface, like a policy discussion. But the more you sit
The Speechwriter That Doesn’t Just Refine—But Shapes AI is becoming our speechwriter, strategist, and thinking partner.Not occasionally. Constantly. Like a speechwriter, it takes rough ideas
If the divide is ultimately about leadership, then the real conversation hasn’t even started yet. Because we’re not just debating a person like Donald Trump.
The President of the United States referred to critics as “really stupid people.”He publicly criticized Supreme Court justices.He spoke about negotiation while simultaneously threatening to
I find myself increasingly puzzled—not just by politics, but by people. Specifically, by the depth of conviction on both sides of the divide around Donald
There are periods in building a company where, from the outside, it looks like nothing is happening. No announcements.No headlines.No visible momentum. And yet —
In a recent post, I looked at how differently modern presidents approach conflict. For most presidents, the law is something the state uses. Agencies investigate. Regulators
Sometimes the difference isn’t in what’s said, but in what’s done—and how often. I’ve been looking at how modern U.S. presidents engage with the legal
I have spent most of my professional life working across borders—geographic, cultural, institutional, and ideological. Aviation, by its very nature, demands this. Airplanes do not
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