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Latest — 27 Jul 2026

Holding the wheel

Notes from the 2026 MS Ride Natalie had her best MS Ride this year. She started training in May. We lifted weights, swam, and rode together. My own rides run longer, mostly because I sign up for distances a sensible person would decline. She'd usually turn for home

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The Banana Protocol

I’ve come to believe the official food of the MS Ride is the banana. Not the watermelon, though it’s excellent. Not the orange wedges, which taste better than fruit has any legal right to. Not even the salt-and-vinegar chips, whose physiological importance I’m prepared to

One Last Ride

Saturday I did something I almost never do. I rode a 200 km brevet completely alone. The Waffle starts on Thursday. At 1,200 kilometres, it will be the longest ride I've ever attempted, the culmination of four seasons spent slowly working my way through longer and longer

Stablecoins Get a Framework. Now What?

There’s a particular kind of meeting that follows a new technology getting its first credible framework. Someone read a headline that someone else forwarded. By the time I'm in the room, the questions are already running ahead of the facts. Are we missing something? Is this where

Faithful Execution: Lessons from the Stryker Incident

In mid-March, Stryker, a major medical technology company, experienced a significant cyber disruption. A group calling itself Handala claimed responsibility, describing a large-scale wipe of devices and internal systems. As with many early-stage incidents, the details are still emerging. Stryker has confirmed a global disruption to its

The Quiet Breach: Lessons from the Wynn Resorts Incident

In late February, a cyber-extortion group claimed it had exfiltrated roughly 800,000 employee records from Wynn Resorts. The ransom demand: 22.34 Bitcoin, or about $1.5 million USD. No darkened casino floors, no halted operations, no dramatic shutdowns. Just a claim. And a clock. Wynn confirmed unauthorized

Human Judgment in the Age of AI

How AI is changing the role of the analyst I. The First Draft I was sitting at my desk, looking at a paragraph that had appeared in seconds. It looked finished, or close enough to seem that way. But it didn’t sound like me, and that was what stopped

The Work in Front of Us

How small choices and steady effort shape change over time I first read the story years ago, on a flight home from a client engagement on organizational change. I had picked up the book at a Hudson News without much thought, the way you reach for something small when you

The Shape of Advice

"You need to make space for someone else to carry the question forward and to trust they will, in their own way, on their own terms, with more clarity than before."

How It All Adds Up: Notes from the 2025 MS Ride

“What made it meaningful wasn’t the distance we covered. It was the way people kept showing up for each other.”