Ground

The why matters. Two showed up. One was afraid, the other was glad. Two departed. One out of anger, another out of acceptance. The source, the why, the place from which you are acting, what does it take to plant in better ground?

5 Pillars Of Hospitality

Hospitality, the art of intentionally extending kindness in spaces you belong to or own. What does it look like to steward hospitality well? Care What can I do to make them feel loved? Awareness How do they feel loved? Am I paying attention to what they’ve told me? Creativity I can’t do it all, so…

Tolkien And Tokens

Or should I say 51, 144221, 1958, 17951—at least for all the large language models in the room. Wait, what? Let’s back up. Large language models (LLMs) don’t write the way you and I do—thinking of words, writing individual characters, and arranging them into sentences. To see this in real time type “hello world” here….

Henry Royce

In Peterborough, England, among the crowd, a boy could be seen dashing about, selling newspapers and delivering telegrams. So quick was he that you almost missed the fact that he was only nine years old. By the age of 14, his trajectory changed when his aunt paid for him to apprentice with the Great Northern…

Connected

If you walked into work smiling you maybe have contributed to the reason your coworker returned home with a smile. If your friend’s friend is feeling stressed that may impact your mood. Thousands of variables, relationships, all weaving in and out. Does one shrink and try to run from the potential negatives? They’re unavoidable. One…