4 mn read I am coming up on a year since being initially diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. There have been significant challenges and I have found…

4 mn read In 2020 I was stuck. Work, COVID, family challenges, the whole lot of things. I was reading a lot from Steven Kotler and his research…

4 mn read To thine own self, Full Send

10 mn read In this post, I write about the goals of the Virtuous Insurgency Conference – DEF 202X, how important the CFS (call for sessions) process is,…

7 mn read The First Way The First Way of DevOps (from the Phoenix Project and the DevOps Handbook, 2nd Edition) centers around the concept of “Systems Thinking,”…

4 mn read The Department of Defense (DoD) is facing a unique challenge as it seeks to modernize its capabilities and stay ahead of ever-evolving threats. To achieve…

< 1 mn read (ahem) Oh, Federal Supply Service Green Notebook, How we adore thee, let us count the ways, In a world of tech and screens and digital…

3 mn read The Adaptive Acquisition Framework within the US Department of Defense exists so we can stop the madness with bad acquisitions efforts for modernizing our capabilities.…

9 mn read You know what really grinds my gears? Excessive focus on what technical products are being adopted by organizations “transforming.” It is all a schtick and…

3 mn read It is a joke.  A sad, macabre joke. And it is infuriating to anyone willing to actually pull their head out of the shiny object…