There are small differences between roles of teachers, coaches, and mentors when referring to one-on-one relationships. (Team coaches are beyond the scope of this since they have roles to also synchronize the collective.) One way to see the differences is to look at actions of each. There is a lot of overlap, so the nuance is in what is unique about each.
Role Actions
Teacher - Reviews previous progress, builds a plan, instructs on a topic, poses questions, evaluates performance, provides feedback, focuses on growth.
Coach - Reviews previous progress, suggests a plan, guides on a topic, poses questions, evaluates performance, provides feedback, focuses on growth.
The teacher role is the most directive: I'm teaching you something and I expect you to do what I say. This seems to be a knowledge and skill transfer function.
The mentor role is the least directive: I'm here to ask you questions that will enable you to find your own way. This seems to fill a decision guidance function.
The coach falls between these two: I'm here to suggest what you should do since you know most of the knowledge, can do most of the skills, and make most of the decisions. This seems to fill a refinement function.
A few other interesting roles are guardian (includes parents) and role model. Guardians have responsibility for care and feeding. Role models have near zero interactions with the student, but because of publicly available information, the student can self-mentor through questions like, What would [role model] do or say?
One person can fill more than one role. Identifying the role being used at the time can help set clear expectations for both sides of the relationship.
Directive Scale: Guardian <--> Teacher <--> Coach <--> Mentor <--> Role Model
Manosphere?
15 Jun 2026 (but posted late on 16 Jun 2026)
There are concerning things and interesting discussions happening right now around what does it mean to be a man. I don't think the culture has changed so much that it should cause an internal crisis, but others are not me and are concerned at the core-level, so this is worth paying attention to.
Here are four media pieces are interesting contributions to the conversation.
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere - Wikipedia - One source of introduction to the topic if you don't already have understanding of what's meant by the "manosphere" or why the sub-culture it names can be dangerous.
Adolescence (TV series) - Wikipedia - This provides a view from many perspectives that can provide a source for discussion. Worth watching twice as the characters and dialogue provide a different experience the second time through.
Andrew Tate is right about masculinity - Eli Stark-Elster on Substack - A personal blog entry that I think has an interesting, actionable take on what to do. A turning point in the post: This belief system is despicable. But it works. Men eat this shit up. And if we (the left) want to win back the hearts of those that have been lost to the abyss, we need to understand why and use it to our advantage.
I've gone over the cliff and find myself in the fog of retirement. It might not be retirement from ever working again, but it is retiring from the type of work I've been doing with the group of people who knew me for a purpose I believed in.
Ideas of projects I've not had time for in my former position now have possibility. My Idea Debt grew over my previous career and maybe I can get few out to others who can use or continue them. Being I'm not fully out of my former organization yet, the fact that I'm still on the books in a transition program means I have access to communications and people still know me.
This window of opportunity means I can reduce my Idea Debt and have some closure to my career. These things because I actually finish some formerly dormant projects and leave the team with a few problems solved that they can leverage and go even further. All good things. The window of opportunity is still open. Where's the conflict; what's the downside?
I'm not fully working on what's now or next. The windows of opportunity for what I'm doing now (transition program), the next thing (moving to our next home), and the next-next thing (getting a job) are also open. Not to mention living life with my family (school, extracurriculars, downtime, trips to extended family, etc.). I'm surprisingly time constrained being that I've not gone through this fog before. Maybe I could have mapped out what was going to likely be things I'd need time for, but I think this is where I'd be purposefully vague and thus overly optimistic about what I could get done. And that, right there, is when I'm unrealistic about time, which creates stress and anxiety in my life and runs over into my close family members.
The now and next have taken far more time than I expected, leaving quite little for the previous and next-next projects. I find myself frustratingly back at the beginning: loaded with Idea Debt and a feeling of leaving unsolved problems that those I left behind don't have time, expertise, or interest in solving, but could benefit them.
I find I've put myself back into emergency-work mode, burning the candle at both ends. Existing stress cracks in my relationships and in my personal values don't close, or even continue to widen. This hurts even more now that I'm supposedly retired.
Position Handover Checklist
13 Jun 2026
Use this to breakdown the position in different ways to affect the handover, or turnover, or change out, or position swap, in a successful way.
Levels of Understanding
Use to discuss depth of each handover item.
List; Awareness; Reduce Unknown-Unknowns
Execution; Imitation; Building Blocks
Instruction; Evaluation
Design
Task/Project/Process Types
Use to identify which task/project/process is which type and also to discover others.
Management; Cog in the Machine; Feed the Bureaucracy; Measure Risk
Leadership; Solve Interesting Problems; Innovation; Take Risk
Existing Systems
Given limited time, descending order is decreasing importance.
Relationships
Regulars
SMEs (Subject Matter Experts)
Acquaintances
Unobvious Contacts
Communication
Email Distribution Lists
Organization Inboxes
Chat Channels (Mattermost, MS Teams, Slack...)
Phone Numbers
Schedule
Calendar Invites
Standing Meetings w/o Invites
Regular Deadlines
Battle Rhythm
Systems
Full List
Training & Access Paperwork
Processes
Content, Material, Storage
Storage Organization
Archives
Likely Revisits
"How you do anything is how you do everything."
12 Jun 2026
How you do anything is how you do everything.
This can be a useful maxim. In a conversation with Anthropic's Claude LLM, I got much more than I expected. It started as a question: "Is this a paradox, contradiction, or trade-off?" I initially thought it was a contradiction since if everything is important than nothing is important. Instead, the tool says it is a trade-off and a false dichotomy; it's not an either/or, but instead two axis, one of effort and one of standard.
Here is my conclusion from the tool. Above a certain floor (or we can call it a specification), putting effort into everything uniformly will exhaust your time and energy. Said another way, not all things get the same level of effort. Instead, choose the spec each action. All should meet a spec of "care," even if no one will check the work.
The full conversation can be found here.
The Next Right Thing
11 Jun 2026
Many Disney movies are a good source of adult challenges told through stories understandable by a younger audience. They provide great places to start conversations on topics that might be hard to bring up. The popularity of the stories mean the same conversations can be shared by the children with their friends, so you're equipping your children for peer discussions. Finally, the richness of the stories means these conversations can happen well after the movie is over, so the time and place of the discussion can be chosen.
The song The Next Right Thing from Frozen 2 is a good example. The character has lost loved ones and can barely find the energy to function, "But a tiny voice whispers in my mind, 'You are lost, hope is gone, but you must go on and do the next right thing.'" At another time and another place, this scene can be used to start conversations about grief. "Remember when Princess Anna was in the cave, so sad she didn't even know what to do next?"
Choosing the time, place, and message for a lesson is more challenging. Many times with children, it's now, here, with ready-to-go or do-it-live messages. Do the work ahead to be ready when the chance appears.
Advice to People Studying Technology Anything
10 Jun 2026
The following post can be advice for anyone studying practically any subject. Just replace the word technology with whatever subject and the article almost holds together word-for-word.
I don't think the future looks bleak. A deeper-level of understanding in any subject is still a competitive advantage today; it can only be built through hard work, there is no shortcut. Here's an extract of advice from the article.
Never just follow hype or trends.
Be curious. Don't just learn tools, try to understand how the underlying technology works.
If possible, try at least once to manually do what e.g. a configuration tool does for you.
If possible, try to look at the code for the tool. Even a basic understanding of the code can be very valuable.
Stay curious. Keep learning. Experiment. Dive deeper into the technology that interests you. If possible, set up a homelab and use it as a playground for learning and breaking things.
Question everything. Especially things that don't make any sense to you. Don't just assume that someone else knows better - that's how you quickly turn into a blind follower. Sometimes someone else truly knows better, but don't just assume that to be the case by default. And be brave! Stand by the truth and your convictions even if that makes you feel like you stand alone.
That's Rude
9 Jun 2026
Right and wrong are one of many topics to teach kids. So are kind and mean, which are encapsulated within right and wrong. It's right to save a life while extending help when it's not life threatening is closer to kindness. However, these aren't nuanced enough to capture the middle-of-the-road average daily interactions. People should know and practice kindness while avoiding meanness, but there's another level that helps pull apart differences of behavior in the middle of these.
"That's rude," or, "It's polite to...," provide a precise message to our children that what they are doing is or isn't appropriate. We found ourselves saying, "That's rude," so much that it unexpectedly became our primary teaching tool when they were young. The things we were concerned about weren't drastic enough to be wrong or even mean.
I've no basis to say it's always on a linear spectrum, but this is just how it works most often in my mind.
Right <-- Kind <-- Polite <--> Rude --> Mean --> Wrong
Potential Treasure Maps
8 Jun 2026
Geocaching is the closest thing to modern treasure maps that comes to my mind. Using an LLM tool, Anthropic's Claude, I list the results of a conversation about other possible experiences that have elements of a chart, something to decode, a hidden payoff in a physical location, and a time aspect that allows the puzzle to remain dormant for a period of time.
I haven't fully digested this, so here it is in raw form from the tool.
Forrest Fenn–style treasure hunts — chest sat ~10 years; the poem-map and the physical cache both persist with no maintenance, no server, no event. Purest match.
Armchair treasure hunt books (Masquerade) — the printed book is the dormant chart; it works decades later off a shelf, pointing at a buried object that waits. The map and payoff are both fully passive.
These two are the only entries where both halves of the treasure-map structure are designed to wait indefinitely with nobody tending them.
Tier 2 — Strong Object Dormancy, but with a dependency or a missing half
Letterboxing — planted box + printed clues persist for years; only dependency is the physical box surviving weather/removal. Very close to Tier 1; loses the spot only because clues are often community-hosted rather than a standalone authored chart.
Metal detecting / mudlarking — the longest, most genuine dormancy of anything (centuries), but it has no authored chart. Maximal payoff-dormancy, zero map-dormancy. Belongs here only if you'll accept "research-derived map."
Geocaching — caches genuinely persist for years, but the system actively resists true dormancy: logs, owner check-ins, "needs maintenance" flags, and archival. It's maintained persistence, not abandonment.
Tier 3 — Object persists, but the experience dies without infrastructure
Munzee — physical tag waits forever; the claim needs a live server. Dormant artifact, mortal experience.
Benchmark hunting — markers can sit a century, but they're destroyed by construction over time, and the "map" is an external agency datasheet (durable, but not yours).
Personnel Development and Growth Studies
7 Jun 2026
Four areas for growth of a person in an organization may be critical thinking, leadership/management, historical movies, and book reviews. These are important as an individual or within a group. In a former life, I used the following sources for an optional 6-month development and growth program.
Critical Thinking: Tools and frameworks from Untools.co
Leadership/Management: Application of concepts from the Good to Great series by Jim Collins and various authors, and Dare to Lead by Brené Brown.
Historical Movies: Films on US military professional reading lists
Book Reviews: Books on US military professional reading lists
While in a unit's leadership position, I cycled through each of these four categories in a month as a development meeting; each week was a different category with the occasional 5th week as a make-up. When choosing the lists or concepts to focus on, I had limited time to create the plan so I reached for the nearest things available: military professional reading lists from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Joint commanders. Much of the strength of this process came from doing something regularly rather than picking the perfect plan.
These same areas are useful for parents. Formal development sessions as seen in organizations aren't even needed: we encounter movies during entertainment, books during school and personal reading, critical thinking during life situations, and leadership/management doing extracurricular and clubs. As a parent, we can use our understanding in these areas to deepen the discussions with our kids to expose them frameworks they'll use later in life.
Deliberate Development of a Person
6 Jun 2026
There are approximately six steps in cycle of deliberate developing a person within an organization or as a teacher or coach. I think this cycle can also be used by parents. The concepts remain the same even if the titles of the steps may need to change. These are in order, but there is no specific starting step.
Right People, Right Time - Assign people to formative experiences.
Clarity of Purpose - Connect "what" with "why" for assigned personnel.
TASC, Paint Done - Provide written guidance on how to accomplish.
Dashboard & Discussion - Display tracked data and discuss progress.
Marketing, In & Out - Document accomplishments, publish impact messages.
Projects We Need - Identify, shape, or create formative experience projects.
This cycle has flywheel properties; it's difficult to get started, but momentum gained will help keep it going.
Two Things at Once
5 Jun 2026 (but posted late on 6 Jun 2026)
Life involves managing paradoxes, contradictions, and trade-offs. An adult shows their maturity through how well they navigate these without falling into an either/or mindset.
As a leader in an organization, I think I practiced strength through seeking advice from trusted sources, making a clear decision to move forward despite the uncertainty of what might happen, and then humbly taking feedback, which sometimes meant swallowing my pride to reverse course and doubling the effort of all involved to go the other way.
My grandfather was a significant part of my life: he molded me into what he believed a man should be, helped clear my path to college, and listened to and talked through all my life problems. He was also racist and in that we never agreed. A family member has strong opposing political views from me--or maybe I from them--but we have a strong relationship filled with love and respect for each other.
I've spent most of my adult life with my colleagues doing meaningful work, but I consider my spouse and children to be the most important people in my life. My work may not pay as much as other work might, and that higher pay would be better for my family, but this work is more aligned with my values.
These are all potential traps for those who aren't prepared for them. Parents can show children versions of these dilemmas and help them see how to work through and live with them.
AI Disclaimer: I created this post with assistance from AI tools. Specifically, I used Anthropic's Claude to dive into the definitions and nuances of paradoxes, contradictions, and trade-offs, along with revising the opening and refining wording throughout. Next, I used the tool for line editing and copyediting of the final version. Additionally, my original title of "Life Tensions" was flat, so I got help there too. This was an exercise in how I write compared to the collected average presented by the tool. I've room for improvement, but also I don't fully agree with the average. I am responsible for the post as it appears.
An Isolated Database Tool - The Backend
4 Jun 2026
I'm working on simple, secure tools to help aid someone working to solve problems. One useful tool to have ready is a database with a GUI backend on an isolated server. Here is a guide to setting up a PocketBase service on FreeBSD over Tailscale. It's made possible due to a discussion with Anthropic's Claude, much testing, and the relentless efforts of open source software volunteers.
Library - On Self
3 Jun 2026
Leadership and management are built on a strong foundation: the self. Here's a list of books about building one's character, attitude, and habits. There are so many others out there; the important thing is to find something that works for you and do the work.
Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl - Find meaning through work, love, or courage and realize one's only true control is over how they respond to a situation.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey - Foundational principles for a person to build on.
Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown - Clear, nuanced vocabulary unlocks better communication and connection.
Food Rules by Michael Pollan - Feed the body well to sustain activities.
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield - Personify obstacles to doing meaningful work.
Linchpin by Seth Godin - Work to be one-of-one.
The Practice by Seth Godin - Small, daily efforts to do big, meaningful things.
Think Again by Adam Grant - Frameworks for reassessing as an individual and in groups.
Give and Take by Adam Grant - Kind isn't nice and tit-for-tat isn't the best way forward.
Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss - First five chapters are the best active-listener actions I've encountered to date.
Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss - Collection of advice from a wide-range of people: find something that connects to you.
Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss - Collection of tools and techniques from a wide-range of experts: find something that works for you.
The Tim Ferriss Show by Tim Ferriss - Collection of a wide-range of well-interviewed experts.
Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Luck may have more involvement in success than given credit for.
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker - Dated vocabulary for solid principles.
On Combat by Dave Grossman & Loren Christensen - Seek stress inoculation to better performance during intense events.
Thanks for the Feedback by - Feedback about oneself is essential to improvement.
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins - Tools and techniques for building resilience through difficult times.
Library - On Management
2 Jun 2026
Leadership and management are two different topics. Both are needed. Here's a short list of books in the management category. My concern that the list is so short is I've undervalued good management; thus "to be continued..."
Building Great Organizations by Jim Collins & various authors - Structure to organize an organization.
The Manager's Handbook by Alex MacCaw - Good for many elements of Working as a Team, Information Sharing, and other sections.
Risk by Stanley McChrystal & Anna Butrico - Risk acceptance is a leadership decision, but the rest is management.
Mastery by Robert Greene - Choices are leadership, but the process is management.
Library - On Leadership
1 Jun 2026
Leadership and management are two different topics. Both are needed. Here's a short list of books in the leadership category.
The Song of Significance by Seth Godin - Structure for effective organizations driven by purpose and meaning.
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown - People are also humans.
Team of Teams by Stanley A. McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, & Chris Fussell - Build teams through relationships.
Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet - One can lead even when not an expert in the field.
Start With Why by Simon Sinek - Purpose and meaning are important.
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek - The goal of the game is to keep playing, not to win.
The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, & Craig Walsh - Build a great organization through a foundation of excellence.
The Thin Book of Trust by Charles Feltman - Understand the four elements of trust to build trust and provide constructive feedback.
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek - Behaviors of great leaders.
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin - Own it.
Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen - Feedback about oneself is essential to improvement.
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg - Terrible title, excellent content. Listen to the audiobook, skip the written book.
Finding My Way Through the Fog
31 May 2026
First steps, create a SFD of my situation. This is an assessment of the cliff I just went over (retirement after 20 years of military service) and the fog I find myself in (what do I do now?). It's useful to hang the assessment on something, so I'll use the structure from What to Make of a Life by Jim Collins as the foundation.
2. One Big Thing
For sure, I'm going to seek serial hedgehogs. The retirement provides a clean break from the previous life. If I wanted to continue precisely what I was doing, I could only be adjacent to that path since I'm no longer a military aviator.
3. A Constellation of Encodings
Much work to be done here. I'm well practiced at reflection, analyzing the past, but I know that I'll procrastinate doing this part because the feeling of needing perfection here is strong. So here's a SFD to break the tension; something that is likely nowhere near precise or accurate for this exact topic, but gets me started.
The goal: find what I can do exceptionally well relative to other ways I could expend myself (pg 59).
Self-Awareness to Encoded Operating Modes
One start to discovering my encodings is to use previous work I've done to discover my personal philosophy.
Personal Philosophy 2026-03-15
Curiosity and usefulness are my roots for growth, while creating tools and sharing knowledge are my techniques for developing meaningful short-term and lifelong connections with others.
AI Disclosure: I wrote the pieces of my personal philosophy below and a long conversation with an LLM helped me make it the one sentence above.
Question: What do you value?
Curiosity - There is so much out there in the world to see, do, and learn. Yet more importantly to me, curiosity is about growing myself and bettering those around me. This is a great way to step back and view the world from a different perspective, especially when emotions and feelings are involved. Say I'm angry at someone; stepping back in curiosity to see the bigger picture. With others involved especially, what is the most generous interpretation of what the other person is experiencing?
Usefulness - "Be useful" can apply to a large aspect of life. It's a way of being that is helpful to others and myself. Littering isn't useful. Putting time and effort into something I don't want to do is usually quite useful. Paying taxes is useful. Am I being useful to myself and those around me?
Question: In what do you find purpose?
I find purpose helping others see for themselves what I've learned.
I find purpose in creating software and hardware tools that are useful, even if for a small niche.
I find purpose figuring out something and then applying it somewhere else in a seemingly unrelated field.
I find purpose contributing to something bigger than myself, things that I could never do even with a lifetime of dedication and focus.
Question: How do you define success?
I define success by relationships and connection. Taking end-of-life people's thoughts, happiness, and regrets into account, it all seems to be about the people they've known, the things they've done with them, and the things they've endured or triumphed in together. Work, play, rest, admin, chores, etc. are all means toward building and maintaining both life-long and shorter-term relationships.
Measurement isn't about the quantity, but about the quality of the relationships. I have much work to do here. The first half of my life I didn't see relationships and connections with others as the point itself, got bogged down in the daily life, and have let many go far more stagnant than I'm comfortable admitting. But I can improve.
4. Flipping the Arrow of Money
Here are sources I have or could have to fuel my hedgehog. My intent is for us to financially support our family outside of my hedgehog work. My hedgehog isn't a salaried hedgehog nor do I want it to be. Using concepts from Seth Godin, I want to keep the art required for this hedgehog separate from the income needed to enable the hedgehog to reduce a need to create average stuff for average people in order to make ends meet.
Sources of income for us at this moment:
Earned Earlier: 20-year military retirement pension
Cross Funding: Get a part-time job that pays well for minimal external effort (maximal internal effort is expected). In other words, #1) on-the-clock and off-the-clock are clear boundaries and #2) part-time to maximize hedgehog time.
Spousal Economics: Touch this as little as possible as I would like her to dictate what she wants to do with it. If she has no specific intent, it defaults to building our savings.
5. Focus the Fire
Extend Out/Circle Back
I think here is where I can creatively play. I've now instructed in aviation, in an organization, in a scratch-built team, and briefly in a public school. I've worked on and completed projects with these groups. Extending out is doing something completely new: a new project or a new community. Circling back is building on what I've already done: teaching, team-building, project-management.
My source of income comes from the circling back: staying within aviation. My growth and interest comes from both staying grounded in my comfort zone in aviation work and trying new things in pursuit of my hedgehog.
Choosing Responsibilities
What did I enjoy about my previous work? Community, growth, distilling, teaching.
If I had all the time in the world, who would I focus it on? My spouse, our kids, our circles.
If I could do things over, what would I tell myself to focus on? How to be a good partner. How to be a good parent.
What is a reason for military retirement and not continuing? To focus more time on my family.
These three things point to choosing a responsibility. A private one, focused on our family, about how to be a good human.
I want to say, "Done." What else is there to discuss? I know these things, they're simple in concept and complex in execution. Isn't that what I've learned in the past is a good foundation? Done.
The Stress and Drudgery Tax
Stress
Human lives are involved.
The human lives are my family!
That's a different level of stress.
I do think about the moral to treat other's as if they're your family, but this is a rabbit hole for another time.
I feel late to the game, behind the power curve, and without a means to ever make up what wasn't done.
Parenting is a quiet, almost unseen endeavor. This doesn't translate well when mentioned "at parties."
No "one solution" to parenting: customize the experience to the person.
Each at a different level: meet them where they are, not where I want to them to be.
Drudgery
Results take years or decades to appear.
Life is full of admin.
Saturated topic.
Invigorating Side Passions
These are projects that feed into the main hedgehog. I actually think this is highly interesting: the types of projects with the intent feeding back into the main hedgehog are endless.
Family and Relationships
This needs to be separate from the hedgehog, which is to say also remember to just "be" in the world with my family.
The sphere of the hedgehog doesn't extend beyond my immediate family. There are many Family and Relationships that are part of my life, much like the book talks about. Don't be monomaniacal; continue to form and nurture relationships in my life.
6. Cliffs
Leaving the military service and military flying.
7. Simplex Stepping
Fog of retirement, for sure!
8. Simplex Stepping
Small commitments to leave room for "HELL YEAH!" as I find my way through the fog.
9. The Roulette Wheel of Life
What Luck
Lived in many places for a wide experience.
I've a reservoir of aviation knowledge.
We're going to live geographically close to where aviation knowledge is valuable in many ways.
LLMs are now a thing.
Who Luck
Have a wide-range of family and friends.
I crossed paths with many people in previous work who are now within the community.
Job potential.
Collaboration potential.
Zeit-Luck
Fatherhood is changing.
Parenthood has lost the tribe/community support.
I'd say it's both better and worse than it's ever been.
Internet provides connection and education like never before.
The world is changing so rapidly our kids can make what they want in life within the chaos.
Seize NATILIE Moments
I'm in a NATILIE moment right now: I'm fresh on the job market with recent aviation experience. Aviation experience fades in value as time passes much like any work experience. It's time to immediately start simplex stepping through the fog to what's next for income to enable flipping the arrow of money.
10. Extend Out/Circle Back
The Changing Color of Fire is a topic much like the color of love we heard in Greece long ago. My color of fire is a slow, steady burn that burns persistently and consistently for a long period of time. Great topic for another post someday.
11. Choosing Responsibilities
Look forward in the saddle. There's too much to see looking backward and I don't have enough time for both.
This hedgehog is beyond myself.
This hedgehog is quite close to an intent of leaving a "Legacy". Here be dragons.
12. Feeding the Inner Fire (and Doing Great Work Late)
I have depth and breadth of raw encodings, cumulative experience, and credibility equity. This is due a deep-dive, but not today.
On the topic of leadership, my previous work is sufficient for now without further study at this point. It's clear from the book and my experience how leadership fits into this. Another great topic for a deep-dive in the future.
13. Questions Are Better Than Answers
This is THE next step for this assessment: create questions, start to answer them.
Do Something
26 Jul 2025
The following is a full repost of Seth Godin's work. It stands by itself and is a core idea of my intent for this project.
Creative people
There's just one way to become one:
Do something creative.
It's a little bit like leaders. What they have in common is that they lead.