Strategizing My Life for 2025
Working through HBR’s life strategy exercise to reflect on the past year and think deliberately about the next.
Patience and Humility
“If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.”
— Leslie Lamport
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Navigating Truth in a World of Misinformation
Working through my relationship with truth as misinformation and difficult personal experiences challenge what I believe.
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Balancing Priorities and Relationships in Work Culture
Exploring where conventional advice on priorities falls short when relationships and emotional needs enter the picture.
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Why I Chose Notion Over WordPress for My Business Sites
Why I reconsidered my original WordPress setup and chose Notion for my business’s online presence.
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The Thinking Ladder: Strategies for Effective Leadership in Aviation
Reflections on balancing performance, material condition, culture, and the many authorities involved in aviation leadership.
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How My Leadership Philosophies Evolved Over Two Decades
An unexpected question from a student engineer prompts me to revisit two decades of leadership philosophy.
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The Power of ‘And’: Shifting from Binary to Spectrum Thinking
How therapy and continued learning helped me move beyond binary thinking toward a greater appreciation of life’s spectrum.
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Optimizing Workflow: My Core Systems Document
Bringing together a manual of me and a core systems document to better understand and explain how I work.
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Why the Coast Guard Needs a Joint Military Education Course
My case for a Coast Guard-specific approach to joint professional military education.
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Throughput Accounting: A Solution for U.S. Fiscal Challenges
Considering what throughput accounting might offer as a way to think about federal budgets and fiscal challenges.
