Running a product development business while writing a book isn’t a "graceful balancing act." It’s more like trying to keep forty browser tabs open while my computer is screaming for a reboot.

The time has come. I’ve had enough. I’m drawing a line in the sand.

So here’s my hot take on the state of the world today, based on actual lived experience, not assumptions, not algorithms, and not whatever is trending this week. The world didn’t suddenly and mysteriously become worse. It just got louder when everyone was handed access to an unfiltered megaphone. I occupy a strange middle ground. I lived in the world before the internet, and I lived through its explosive rise. News and conversations were largely local. What I knew about the r