When the Institution Is a Tool
Karen Aruba had everything: illustrations, patterns, video, her father’s decades of carved work. The skill was fully recorded. It still had nowhere to land. What she was missing wasn’t documentation. It was tools. And that distinction matters far beyond Hong Kong.
The Revolving Door Is the Most Dangerous One
The door that looks open but never lets you in. AI transformation is the most credible institutional excuse of our generation, and it is being used to defer decisions leaders have always had the power to make.
What the Y2K Generation Knows About Leadership That You Do Not
May is graduation month. Since 1999, when I first walked into a classroom at FIT, I have lived in two worlds. Practitioner and teacher. Most recently at NYU. It is the month that reminds me why the work matters.
The 1990s were the last chapter of a century built on human connection.
Who is Following the Puck?
Hockey season just ended at my house.
Early mornings. Below freezing temperatures at an outdoor rink. Equipment that has its own smell after a full season on the ice. Three weeks ago we sat at the end of season banquet and watched a room full of people celebrate my twelve year old niece.
They called her the wall.