August 1, 2026
External
Loosely Held
Ongoing notes on AI readiness, judgment, and building in the open.
Writing
Field notes, press, and the longer pieces I keep rewriting until they sound like me.
July 24, 2026
Human Readiness, Not AI
Notes from a year of learning and teaching AI at MillerKnoll.
July 22, 2026
Even If I Winced
Sixteen drafts. Then an editor who would not let me decide what stayed.
July 18, 2026
The Year the Title Arrived
A rubber duck named Ava, a role name TBD, and the quiet week the title finally showed up in my signature.
July 8, 2026
What We Cut
Somewhere on the wall was a sticky note that read, in full, WMACAA.
May 6, 2026
External
Testing the Fences
A Surround conversation on AI literacy, change, and where judgment still matters.
March 26, 2026
External
A moment for forced reflection
Don't mistake a clear view for a short distance.
March 19, 2026
External
Evolving workplaces: Planning the AI-enabled workplace
MillerKnoll Insights Podcast on planning AI-enabled workplaces.
March 12, 2026
Warm Before Wide
Six hundred and seventy-two people were about to get an email from me, and I was thrilled about it.
January 22, 2026
External
IDS Toronto — Rethinking AI’s impact on the Business of Design
Keynote panel with MillerKnoll, Gensler, and others on AI and the business of design.
November 28, 2025
The Hill I'll Die On
I am, at this moment, actively sabotaging the growth of the thing I was hired to grow.
November 12, 2025
Ten Dollars on Shipping
In November 2025 my VP floated a Lean AI Director above me. I wrote back about shipping.
November 8, 2025
External
In defense of difficult
When shortcuts are sold as salvation, effort becomes sacred.
November 5, 2025
External
Do I give my company clammy hands?
What happens if I turn out not to be the person my company wants me to be.
September 18, 2025
Sketchy Forest Berries
Past mile 160 on the Tahoe Rim Trail, at four in the morning, Skittles that were not Skittles.
September 10, 2025
The Tinkerer
Nobody tinkers in front of a boss while pretending to already know.
July 22, 2025
Twelve Eames Lounges
For about four months I was very proud of a number that turned out to be roughly a third of one percent of the actual number.
February 18, 2025
Ninety Days Plus
A colleague at Holly Hunt asked me if his team needed to stop using ChatGPT.