Notes from the field.
Occasional thoughts on relationships, deal-making, and what it actually takes to move technology and marketing companies forward.
We are starting to realize how much AI costs and its not pretty!!
The Bill Just Came Due There’s this moment in every good con where the mark finally sees it. Not a dramatic reveal, not a movie monologue — just a number. A real number. And everything they thought they understood kind of dissolves. That mo…
The AI Problem No One Is Solving
The AI Problem Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud Let me say the quiet part out loud. A lot of what is happening around AI right now is not being driven by builders. It is being driven by people who are very far away from the actual work. That di…
Really Cool Press Release on TheCollective.Ventures
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, 2026 The Roster Joins TheCollective Ventures as First Client, Signaling New Approach to Agency Business Development NASHVILLE, TN — The Roster Agency, a creative company offering concierge access to top-tier fr…
AI Should Make Us More Human Not Less
AI Should Make You More Human, Not Less Here’s a take that might get me in trouble with the tech crowd: the best business development professionals I’ve ever met didn’t win because of their tools. They won because of how they made people fe…
The AI Conversation that people are missing!!!
My friend Ram consults with organizations on this very thing. If it’s something you would like to explore let me know and I will get you connected!!
Hard Hats and Help Desks why 2nd Chance Hiring Needs To Move Up the Org Chart!!
Second Chance Hiring Doesn’t Stop at the Warehouse Door So here’s something that kind of bugs me, and I’ve been sitting with it for a while now. Every time second chance hiring comes up in a conversation with a business leader, there’s this…
The Loyalty Dividend.
This is the part nobody Talks About. You want to know the conversation that drives me the most crazy? I hear it constantly, I mean constantly, from leadership teams across industries. It goes something like, “attrition is killing us, we can…
68% vs. 1.8%. That’s Not a Statistic. That’s an indictment!
Let me give you two numbers and let them sit for a second. 68%. That’s the recidivism rate for people released from incarceration in America who don’t have naccess to stable employment and support. Two out of every three people cycling back…
The Power Of A 2nd Chance
The Weight of a Closed DoorLet me ask you something before you scroll past this.Think about a moment in your life when you needed grace. When you needed someone to look at you, not at what you did, and say I still believe in you. Maybe it w…
The Talent Play Most Employers Are Completely Sleeping On
Let me just say this plainly because I think it needs to be said. There is a workforce asset sitting right in front of most technical organizations in this country and the vast majority of them are walking right past it. Not because they’re…