Over the years, I’ve…
| When | What | Essay |
|---|---|---|
| 5th grade | Sold mistletoe door to door in the fifth grade (and learned what happens when you run out of product) | Read |
| 2010 | Deployed enterprise software across the country for Accenture, then walked away from the cubicle in 2010 with no plan | Idea |
| [YEAR] | Was CTO of The Domino Project, Seth’s publishing experiment powered by Amazon | Idea |
| 2015 | Built the tech behind Seth Godin’s altMBA, now 7,000+ alumni in 100+ countries | Idea |
| 2015 | Ran a magazine for Black men out of Harlem and published 400+ stories in four years | Idea |
| c. 2015 | Sat across from a new client who started telling racial jokes at our kickoff meeting | Read |
| 2017 | Gave a talk in Berkeley, got recruited as hire #3 at ReadySet, and stayed six years | Read |
| 2017–24 | Led ReadySet trainings from Portland to Portugal for 200+ organizations | Idea |
| [YEAR] | Went house hunting on HGTV | Idea |
| 2026 | Started managing AI agents like direct reports (and taught one to run the servers in my closet) | Read |
What I write about
| Topic | Published | Next up |
|---|---|---|
| Holding the room | A teacher’s turning point Feedback for you and for me Act like you want to be there |
How I open a room in the first five minutes |
| Managing humans and agents | Agentic Management Trust and ego in management Unnecessary heroics |
AI upskilling is a management problem, not a training problem |
| The Seth Godin years | None yet | Building the altMBA: learning infrastructure for 7,000 people |
| Media and identity | A love letter to Oak Bluffs The Fierce Urgency of Compassion |
Four years of publishing a magazine for Black men |
| Culture work | Six & Change From Day One A message for the moment |
What inclusion work actually changed |
| The portfolio career | Accruing Assets What’s in a Power Circle? The problem with waiting |
From IT consultant to facilitator |
| Tinkering | The vibes are right | I let an AI run the servers in my closet |
| People and places | Strengthening weak ties Mutual introductions You just had to be there |
Jacksonville made me |