Thinking more deeply about big things or more broadly about small things very often requires interaction with good, diverse and patient people who are willing to listen, able to push and motivated to sacrifice towards contributing to a bigger vision of what world should look like.

December 3, 2023

In seeking to understand challenges, we see they are hard not necessarily because of the large amount of information we are required to gather and organize. Anyone can google that. Challenges are hard to understand because once we analyze the information, we often confront the reality that the initial challenge we started with is complex.

January 4, 2023

The 2nd Annual Challenge to the City demonstrated a unique and rare sharing of firsthand experience, deep knowledge, refined skills and valuable networks at all levels of the Jackson leadership community. These components were bound by the assumption that each person could learn something from the other. It was an enviable combination of experience, knowledge, skills, networks and humility.

June 18, 2023

Perhaps it is here, we see what separates people from having a passive interest in something to being an active, inspired participant in that space, whatever that participation looks like. Determination is not easy. It is messy. It hurts. It is not comfortable.

October 25, 2023