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They Found a Computer. It Was 2,000 Years Old
It was the spring of 1900. A group of Greek sponge divers, blown off course by a fierce Mediterranean storm, dropped anchor near the small island of Antikythera — a barren, wind-battered speck of…
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They Drew for the Sky. No One on the Ground Could See
In 1927, a Peruvian archaeologist named Toribio Mejia Xesspe was hiking through the desert plateau south of Lima when he noticed something odd about the ground. Shallow lines. Trenches, really — no deeper than…
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Greed for Growth vs. Stability: Why Scaling Too Fast Could Kill Your Business
Let me be honest with you right from the jump. This piece is personal. It is not a theoretical think-piece written from the safe distance of academia. I co-founded a clean-tech electric vehicle company…
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How to Build Genuine Confidence
I want to tell you something about confidence that most people get spectacularly wrong. And I mean that without arrogance — because I got it wrong too, for longer than I care to admit.…
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How to Have a Difficult Conversation without Destroying the Relationship
There is a conversation you have been postponing. You know the one. It has been living rent-free in the back of your head for days, possibly weeks. You have rehearsed it in the shower.…
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THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA: A Monument to Everything We Do Not Know Egypt’s Impossible Gift to a World That Cannot Explain It (Part 2)
There is a category of question that polite intellectual company tends to avoid: the kind that, if you pull the thread long enough, begins to unravel not just a specific mystery but the entire…
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ATLANTIS: The City That Never Was — or the City We Have Never Found
Let me take you somewhere. Not to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean — at least, not yet. First, to Lagos. Nigeria. Sometime in the late 1980s. A teenager who should probably have been…
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The Burden of Forever: Why “The Age of Adaline” Stays With You
This is my story of discovering a film that challenged everything I thought I knew about the gift of time, every pulsating detail documented to inspire you to leap beyond your limitations and appreciate…
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The Plumber Who Became a Lama: Unmasking the Greatest Hoax of My Teenage Years
This is my story, every pulsating detail documented to inspire you to question what you know and leap beyond your limitations. This story is about the audacity of belief, the power of a well-told…
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THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA: A Monument to Everything We Do Not Know Egypt’s Impossible Gift to a World That Cannot Explain It (Part 1)
There is a category of question that polite intellectual company tends to avoid: the kind that, if you pull the thread long enough, begins to unravel not just a specific mystery but the entire…
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THE TAOS HUM: The Sound That Is Slowly Driving People Mad And the World Cannot Explain Why
There is a peculiar kind of madness that does not arrive with hallucinations or trembling hands. It arrives quietly. At two in the morning. In a small desert town in New Mexico. It sounds…
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THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Let me confess something. Long before LinkedIn articles, podcasts, and leadership keynotes became my world, I was a teenager sneaking to the library