I write about time, leverage, judgment, work and the bigger picture - not as an academic exercise, but from years spent making decisions, living with the results and helping other people think through theirs.
“Experience doesn’t automatically become wisdom. Reflection does.”
Over the course of a long career, I’ve sat in several different seats. I’ve been the person responsible for making the product work, getting the customer, building the team and living with the consequences of a decision. I’ve also been the person across the table, helping an owner or executive step outside the urgency of the moment and see the problem from a different angle.
Those experiences taught me that the most important part of a decision is often outside the frame. A constraint that looks fixed may not be. An overlooked resource may matter more than a new one. A choice that makes sense today may look very different when measured over five years instead of five weeks.
That habit of looking beyond the immediate problem became the thread running through my work. It eventually became the foundation for HyperLeverage, informed my years of advisory work and now shapes the essays I publish in The Long View.
The subjects vary. The question underneath them usually does not: What becomes visible when we stop looking only at what is directly in front of us?
Years spent building and operating taught me to distrust ideas that work only on paper. Real businesses impose friction: customers behave unpredictably, people have incentives, timing matters and every decision carries trade-offs. That experience still anchors how I think.
Advisory work added distance. When you are not buried in the daily operation, you can sometimes see what the people inside it cannot: the assumption nobody is questioning, the asset nobody is using, the decision being made on the wrong time horizon. My job was rarely to arrive with a clever answer. It was to help make the picture clearer.
Writing adds one more layer of distance. It lets me look across decades rather than quarters, and across business, work and life rather than inside a single problem. Patterns that once seemed unrelated begin to connect. That is where much of my writing starts.
Essays exploring time, leverage, judgment, work, society and experience through five complementary lenses.
Explore The Long View → The methodA framework for seeing more value in resources and opportunities that are already present but often overlooked.
Explore HyperLeverage → Work with JoelI still take on a limited number of advisory, speaking and media engagements when an experienced outside perspective can be useful - especially when the real challenge is seeing the situation more clearly.
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