Payroll costs less than $250 a month

Agencies say AI adds 10% to margins. My old P&L says that's the wrong number.

Year 3: fewer subscribers, better newsletter

What changed, what I cut, and what's in the machine room. Plus: help me build year 4.

Write your own permission slip

Forty years of experiments, and a four-box test for an easy win

812 lawyers and counting

The work got free. The responsibility didn’t.

Nobody hires a calculator

A billionaire admitted a machine wrote his op-ed. The reaction tells you where the value moved.

AI update - Q3 2026

Chatbots answer. Agents act. That’s the whole story.

We built AI governance before AI needed governing

An old friend called about blockchain. I told him I'd moved on. Then I spent the morning realizing I hadn't.

The autopilot did its job. That's what killed them.

What a 2009 plane crash can teach late-career professionals about handing judgment to AI.

Don't Fund the Bubble.

Most of what's happening is garbage. The infrastructure underneath it isn't.

Design was always a Business Result

Pretty got commoditized. Then usability. Here's where the value goes next.

Drucker solved this in 1966

Drucker got the diagnosis right sixty years ago. The cure showed up last year.

Old folks rule (the data agrees)

AI has made your experience worth more — not less.

It's all your fault

The confession is the easy part. The turn is where it counts.

Start a Business Without Risking Your Retirement

Become a Beginner Again (On Purpose)

Apprentice Yourself to Your Next Chapter

Don't quit your day job. Use it.

How to launch your second act without blowing anything up

AI Didn't Fix the Bozos

The 2026 update on innovation — and why your experience is worth more, not less

Almost nobody uses AI

ChatGPT just hit 900 million weekly users. The math is more interesting than the headline.

Everybody starts too big

Stop thrashing and do one thing

Build your own door

Don't wait for gatekeepers to let you in

Your agency of one

How to build a screen porch side hustle

A Newsletter Became a Community Became a Fund.

What I learned helping my son build the audience he's now raising a venture fund on top of.

You've Been a Copywriter for 30 Years. You Just Called It Something Else.

The flood is here. The filter is the part you already built.

Sun Tzu didn't have a 5-Year Plan

And you don't need one either

Nobody Saw This Coming

(Except the People Who Did)