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Stories, insights, and reflections on leadership, resilience, music, and building things that matter.

And Now For Something Completely Different

3 min read

BassicNerd , my musical alter ego. Yes, he's a tye dye monkey. If you know me, this is not surprising. So it's been a while. Like, more...

The Road to Recovery

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Nothing last forever, and this is a great gift. No one is happy to see the good things in life come to an end, but we recognize that the...

Finding Strength In Failure

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A new venture is an open landscape of the unknown. It is one thing to receive and process advice and another to know how that advice is...

As with Self, So Too with Business

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The journey to being an authentic, whole human is always difficult. A new favorite movie of mine is The Barbie Movie and one of the...

RIDE Through Disruptions with Clarity

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Prioritization is a frequent problem. Whether it’s running a business, preparing for a show, or organizing a busy day-to-day life,...

Redefining Zero

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It was the summer of 2016. I was in Oregon with my family, including my youngest brother and his own family. I had sold him on the merits...

The Year I Learned to Walk

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2021. At the height of the COVID pandemic and lockdown. 46 years old. I learned to walk No, that's not a metaphor. I know… I like my...

Newton's First Law is in Everything.

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She did not respect the inertia. It happens often enough. All of us, each day, forgetting about mass and vectors. A foam mattress left...

Firemaking for Teams

5 min read

My partner and I bought a forest a few years ago in the Olympic Peninsula, known as “Earthbound”. It was intended as simply investment...

Carrots and Sticks

5 min read

Whether you are managing a project, directing a play, or coaching a little league team, the outcome you are seeking is an audience...

Screw Your Courage to the Sticking Place, Sisyphus.

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We're raised to be dependent. There are inescapable dependencies in life, of course: parents, money, cars, police, banks, doctors,...

Building Castles in the Sky

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The move to Seattle was a deeper discussion than merely relocating. Seattle is a divergence from the patterns we had built as intrinsic...