Category: Wisdom

  • I have been in enough rooms with executives and managers to know what is really said when the microphones are off and the doors are closed. I have heard leaders mock unions. I have heard workers described as lazy (e.g. faculty and staff). I have watched decision-makers joke about “screwing over” union leaders or laugh…

    No Confidence: The Ugly Truth About How Leaders Talk About Labor
  • NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has presented a sweeping and ambitious vision for the future of manufacturing and technology. He describes a world where everything that moves, from cars to delivery drones to industrial equipment, will be autonomous and robotic. In this scenario, every company will operate two distinct but interconnected factories. The first will produce…

    AI Code Red: Robots Will Control Everything That Moves
  • In summer 2025, the Internal Revenue Service quietly reshaped the American political and religious landscape. In a court filing that surprised both legal scholars and faith leaders, the IRS announced that houses of worship may now endorse political candidates during worship services without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status. This move represents a dramatic reinterpretation of the…

    Sabbath Discussion: Pulpits as Political Platforms? IRS Rewrites the Rulebook
  • The quiet part was just said out loud. Vice President JD Vance told national newspapers that he is “ready for the job” should “a terrible tragedy” strike Donald Trump. That one sentence tells us more than a hundred White House press releases. If everything were fine, if Trump’s health were truly “incredible” as Vance insists,…

    Republicans Just Leaked Trump Won’t Last
  • Climbing ladders in life is supposed to be the surest way to more impact. For example, in universities, the ladder is mapped out with precision: start as an assistant professor, earn tenure, advance to associate professor, then full professor. From there the rungs shift to leadership—program chair, department chair, dean, provost, and if you’re lucky,…

    Why I Should Have Stayed a Dean (and What That Says About Career Ladders Everywhere)

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