Economic growth is a hell of a drug. But what do you do when the well's run dry?

21st-century living is complicated. But must it be?

Why is business so hard?

If there's one thing I've come to value after the last 16 years full-time in the workforce, it's simplicity.

My son is in his final year of reg-league baseball. This fall season is his next-to-last season, with his last being in the spring. It’s a bittersweet time.

No business stands on its own. Every business is dependent on something else in some way; the question is to what degree, and how stable is that dependency?

Over the last few months, I’ve been asking myself if I’ve been turning into a Communist, as certain aspects of capitalism have had me seeing red.

In the autobiography The Life of Frederick Douglass, the author takes an interesting view on slavery when he argues that when otherwise good people become slaveowners, they can't help becoming monsters. Douglass takes a compassionate view of the villains. It's not always that bad people become slaveowners—but slaveowners become bad people.

These days, people are worried about AI taking their jobs. And who can blame them, with all the stories circulating about AI's great accomplishments. (P.S. If you're looking for a counterweight to the hype, read Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis. And subscribe to Gary Marcus's Substack while you're at it.)