Writing & thinking
How I think, in long form.
Essays on leadership, systems, and organizational design from my work in executive operations and organizational consulting. This is professional thinking, distinct from my author platform, which lives elsewhere.
- ReadEssay·September 11, 2026·5 min read
Finding Magic in Life Again
Sometimes hope returns in unexpected ways. A burger, a referral, a conversation, a little kindness. The value isn't always obvious. But it's there.
- ReadCareer & Leadership·August 31, 2026·5 min read
What Are You Looking For?
For a year, I’ve been asked what I’m looking for next. The answer is simpler than the journey to find it: mutual trust and respect, a meaningful problem worth solving, and recognition when we solve it. Because the right environment doesn’t just support great work; it makes it possible.
- ReadJob Search & Hiring·August 29, 2026·5 min read
Six Hours. One Job Application. No Interview
After thirteen months and nearly 1,000 job applications, I’m opening one of my applications for public peer review. Six hours of work. Three substantive responses. No interview. What would you have done?
- ReadHiring & Leadership·August 25, 2026·5 min read
Hiring Has Lost Its Depth: The Invisible Cost of Lost Opportunities
We’ve optimized hiring for speed, automation, and scale, but what happens when efficiency prevents us from actually understanding the people we’re evaluating?
- ReadAI & Human Agency·August 17, 2026·7 min read
47 Billion Ways to Tell AI No
How arguing with AI has led to better outcomes. The right question isn't what AI can do. It's what humans can do now that we have AI.
- ReadClient Experience·August 16, 2026·10 min read
I Never Treated Two Clients the Same
What a decade of victim advocacy as a paralegal taught me about client retention. In eighteen months and more than 700 cases, I never lost a client because the relationship broke down.
- ReadHow I Think·August 15, 2026·6 min read
WTF, Charity?
On curiosity, compounding, and the twenty years behind the 45-minute answer. I didn't do a lot of things at once. I did one thing, then another, and every one of them stayed with me.
- ReadLeadership·August 13, 2026·9 min read
How Motherhood Taught Me to Lead and Help Founders Let Go
Parenthood is long-horizon leadership under continuously changing conditions with no instruction manual. The entire point is to make your leadership unnecessary. Business leadership isn't that different.
- ReadOrganizational Design·August 12, 2026·9 min read
You May Not Need a Marketing Hire (Yet). You May Need a Communication System.
Before you write the job description, ask a different question: what exactly is this person inheriting? Hiring a marketer to build the communication system and operate it at the same time is two jobs, not one.
- ReadOrganizational Design·August 2, 2026·7 min read
There Are Two Kinds of Fractional COO. Most Companies Hire the Wrong One.
One is hired to operate a machine that already works. The other is hired because the machine itself is the problem. Hiring for the wrong one is why the same problems keep coming back.
- ReadHow I Think·August 1, 2026·5 min read
Curiosity Is My Competitive Advantage
People call it a magic brain. It isn't magic. It's a lifetime of wanting to know how things work, and that curiosity is what makes the invisible visible.
- ReadSystems Thinking·July 21, 2026·6 min read
Why Businesses & Organizations Mistake Symptoms for Problems
Symptoms are convincing. They're visible, measurable, and painful. But they're rarely the problem — they're evidence that something deeper inside the organization isn't functioning as intended.
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