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All the articles I've posted.
The Forbidden Experiment
It's obvious kids are more vulnerable than adults — but online it's hard to grasp just how much. Why our instinct to keep them physically safe misses the real risk.
One Lesson Coaching Baseball Taught Me
When I coached my son and his friends on a neighborhood little league baseball team, I learned an important lesson about helping kids succeed.
How Does a Video Game End?
If you are a parent trying to end game time, one question you need to answer is, how does your child's game actually END?
Discoverers and Defenders
Coaches taught kids Growth Mindset over Fixed, and Duckworth showed effort counts twice where talent counts once. But that framing misses something — the difference between discoverers and defenders.
Daily Note Resources
Here is an example of how I use my daily note with real world examples. This is for the most party my absolute go to tool for trying to manage the Chaos of being an entrepreneur.
Where Did the Fun Go?
When did it stop being fun to be a kid? What happened to our families and what can we do about it?
How I Extract Maximum Value From Books
I read about a book a week, but for years I got little from it — highlights I never revisited, notes I never reread. Here's the process that finally changed that.
The Three Core Philosophies of Ideas at Play
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could remember everything you ever saw, heard, or read? Well, maybe it would not be that awesome. Still, I would really be…
The Origin of Cheat Code
A great day, a big contract, a celebration dinner — derailed by a kid who wouldn't put down the controller. The family story behind the term 'cheat code.'
Work At Play
An interactive workshop using cooperative video games to teach adults the four core skills of connection: synchronization, shared memory, shared identity, and serendipity.
Lost in Place - Week47
A shift in how I lay out Lost in Place — giving more visual space to the content — plus the start of a baseball coaching story told in comic form.
Lost in Place - Week46
Seven more Lost in Place strips, following a thread on how differently people react to the same information — with my own snarky commentary mixed in.