Blog

• July 27, 2026/First Principles · No. 1

  The Lighthouse Keeper’s Dilemma

  Organizations rarely lose focus because of one bad decision. They lose it through dozens of good intentions. The first post in First Principles, a weekend series on the ideas that shape how I think about leadership.

• July 23, 2026

  The Technology job inside Private Equity firms

  The technology job inside private equity firms has quietly become three jobs. Most org charts still show one.

• July 23, 2026

  The two-question AI purchase filter, interactive

  Answer two questions before buying any AI tool for your firm. A working companion to the two-scoreboards framework.

• July 22, 2026

  Play Hard. Pitch Smart.

  On the shark panel at Harlem Lacrosse's second annual entrepreneurship day. These students pitched real businesses with real poise, and I left impressed.

• July 21, 2026

  The mistake quietly killing most AI projects in private equity

  Every AI use case in a PE firm has two scoreboards. Most firms only use one, and swapping them is what quietly kills good tools.