Artists Through History
The Rock Tumbler: How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking.

The Rock Tumbler: How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking.
Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia and arguably the most powerful man in the current AI revolution, said something quietly devastating to students at Cambridge University recently. “Intelligence is about to be a commodity.” He wasn’t being pessimistic. He was being precise. The thing we’ve spent decades credentialing, testing, and competing over, y’know, our raw […]
The Mirror Series: Extraction, Complicity, and What We Build From Here
Part Four into a deep dive of Richard David Hames’ essay, “Beyond The Cracked Mirror: The Psychic Contract of a Dying Paradigm”
Last week I told you about failing the GMAT and feeling like a misfit. About learning that intelligence comes in forms our education system doesn’t measure or value. This week, I want to talk about Steve Jobs. But not the Steve Jobs you think you know. In 1995, Jobs sat down for a raw, unfiltered […]
(Why We Need Misfits to Save Us) For the longest time, my biggest regret was failing the GMAT. Not because I desperately wanted an MBA. Because that exam was my ticket to an executive MBA program, as a mature student, fully paid for by my employer. That failure proved something I’d suspected my entire life: […]
The Mirror Series: Extraction, Complicity, and What We Build From Here
Part Two into a deep dive of Richard David Hames’ essay, “The Mirror Cracks: Donald Trump and the American Psyche.”
There’s a lot of noise about AI taking over pretty much everything. Productivity tools. Creative work. Strategic analysis. Even emotional support chatbots.Fine. Let me know how that works out for you when you’re sitting in a hospital waiting room at 2 a.m. Because here’s what AI can’t do • Show up when it’s inconvenient.• Remember […]
The Mirror Series: Extraction, Complicity, and What We Build From Here
Part One of a deep-dive into Richard David Hames’ essay, “The Mirror Cracks: Donald Trump and the American Psyche.”
You cannot build sustainable systems without democracy. You cannot have climate action when autocrats control resources. This week, I show you the interconnectedness of one other major factor.