Remember that cookie manufacturer we started a while ago? Good news, business has taken off and people can’t get enough of the cookies! We’re thinking of expanding into retail stores. But there are a million retail stores, which we have no existing relationship with, and the transportation and storing of our cookies that we have…

Divots, bumps, collisions. All signs of friction. All opportunities for growth.

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?

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…

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….