Dolly Parton died August 25, 2026 at the age of 80. It was a great life, but it was still too short. She was America’s bridge builder.

AI is making new kinds of entrepreneurship possible. But it only works with human handholding.

Option 1: AI could “take” your job.

Option 2: AI could also transform it for the better, or help you start the company of your dreams.

Option 2 will require all of us to exercise more “agency” than ever.

The start of a four-part series on surfing the AI tsunami.

Lingo to know to understand competitive whistling.

Part 2 of my story of my trip to the World Whistlers Convention — the competition

Part 1 of the story of my trip to the World Whistling Convention in Kawasaki Japan. This part focuses on my preparation.

Are you the “hero” of every one of your life stories? The “victim”? Both of those can be exhausting. How about trying “learner”?

It’s about more than a game. For the good of our collective souls, let’s stop the flop.