This is an ever-changing collection of posts that best reflect my writing and thinking on the themes I feel most passionate about.
Building Communities
- 6 ways to get more involved in your local community (November 29, 2017)
- What if the police weren't on your side? (January 17, 2016)
- Who else? (June 29, 2015)
- Why Activism is Failing (May 24, 2014)
- Layers of the economic development conversation (February 21, 2014)
- 5 ways to be a leader without running for office (December 13, 2011)
- What would make YOU protest in the streets? (November 22, 2011)
- Hero Worship (September 14, 2010)
Business and Entrepreneurship
- On the first 4 months of owning a newspaper (January 25, 2023)
- Post Status podcast interview (March 18, 2021)
- Go toward the hard stuff (May 20, 2019)
- I'm new here, let's change everything (December 1, 2017)
- On training people (March 21, 2017)
- On hiring people (February 21, 2017)
- Distributed vs. In-Person Teams (January 5, 2015)
- Are you working around someone? (April 21, 2014)
- Are you leaking institutional knowledge? (April 3, 2014)
- How I learned to run a business (March 14, 2014)
- 5 Business Values I Learned Via Earlham College (March 10, 2009)
- Vacation and Vocation (July 20, 2007)
Communication
- Conflict resolution as a life skill (December 4, 2017)
- Leaving Facebook (August 26, 2017)
- Are you leaking institutional knowledge? (April 3, 2014)
- To challenge and be challenged in conversation (January 11, 2008)
Personal Development
- Losing my parents (March 10, 2019)
- Legacy: what will I leave behind? (July 9, 2017)
- Saying yes to the right things (January 20, 2016)
- Fatherhood (June 21, 2015)
- How I learned to run a business (March 14, 2014)
- How I became a computer geek (March 7, 2014)
- Moving from Passive to Active (February 11, 2011)
- On Doing It Myself (April 14, 2008)
Politics and Governance
- World on fire (June 9, 2020)
- Hope in the dark (November 9, 2016)
- The Trump we asked for (May 4, 2016)
Sustainable Living
- Why Activism is Failing (May 24, 2014)
- Is personal lifestyle change effective? (January 25, 2010)
- Our fears around sustainable living (February 26, 2009)
Technology and Media
- Helping kids learn media literacy (October 10, 2021)
- Bringing people back to the open web (April 21, 2018)
- How I build software (December 11, 2017)
- Without media literacy, is there hope for the media? (January 25, 2017)
- Getting started owning your digital home (January 13, 2016)
- Owning our digital homes (September 15, 2015)
- How I stay current with tech (March 16, 2014)
- The end* of website development as a profession (May 20, 2013)