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Your Audience Has an Audience… And That’s the Point
Stop Optimizing for Reach... Start Optimizing for Trust Too many brands, marketers, and creators are still obsessing over who their audience is... demographics, titles, follower counts, neat little personas. That's table stakes, and it's no longer enough. The real...
The Choice to Keep Loving
Over the past year or so, I've written quite a bit about hope, fatherhood, letting go without giving up, and learning to go where the love is. Looking back, I realize those posts have all been helping me work through the same question, even if I didn't fully recognize...
The Next AI Gold Rush Won’t Be Implementation… It’ll Be Remediation
Last week I wrote that AI won't create alignment... it may actually accelerate misalignment. The more I've thought about that idea, the more convinced I've become that we're about to create an entirely new industry. Not AI implementation... AI remediation. This post...
AI Won’t Create Alignment… But It May Accelerate Misalignment
Technology can scale output fast. Alignment, trust, and coherence still require people. Alignment has never been easy. Even in the best-run organizations, it’s more aspiration than reality… something talked about in strategy decks and leadership offsites, but far less...
When the Pursuit of Wealth Costs Us More Than Money
Sadly, many people don't seem to care because all they want to do is trade the stock and make money... The recent excitement surrounding the latest SpaceX offering got me thinking. Much of the conversation wasn't about governance, shareholder rights, or the...
“Talk Story” and Return on Relationship
The inspiration for this post came from a childhood friend. Recently, Jack Melito commented on a LinkedIn post about the Hawaiian tradition of "Talk Story." In his comment, he mentioned me and RETURN ON RELATIONSHIP, suggesting there was a connection between the two...