Aug 18, 2026
The engineers who graded American infrastructure this cycle put a $3.7 trillion price on the gap. They also admitted, in the same report, that a lot of the underlying data is missing.
Aug 12, 2026
Twelve weeks ago I sent this newsletter to a few hundred people and made one argument. I have been making the same argument ever since.
Aug 6, 2026
I have spent twenty-five years in rooms where people move real money. The ones who protect what they built all share a short list. Most people have four of the five.
Aug 3, 2026
Most economic development offices count how many businesses opened. Almost none count how many are still open three years later. That one reporting habit is why so much public money goes into ventures that were never going to make it.
Jul 24, 2026
You documented the lease, the deposit, and the walk-through. You never documented the couch, the TV, or the appliances. That gap is where deposit disputes live.
Jul 22, 2026
On March 5, every member of the Florida House who cast a vote agreed that a human being should have to read your insurance claim before an algorithm denies it. Eight days later the bill was dead.
Jul 20, 2026
Somewhere in your operation right now, a capable person is spending an afternoon counting things by hand. That afternoon costs you more than their salary.
Jul 17, 2026
Every major life transition arrives with a box nobody wants to open: what is in the house, and who gets it.
Jul 15, 2026
For most of my career, the way you got a big job done was simple. You added people.
