Dec 19, 2025 | Stress Management
“Why are you doing this?” — Fearful Freddy“It’s a waste of time!” — Nasty Negative Nelly“Stay in your lane!” — Cynical Cedric (That’s the chickens talking.) It started as a joke. Could I make my puppy talk using AI? I know that sounds obvious. But every time I post a...
Nov 2, 2025 | Stress Management
🎧🧠 Day 1 of 30 Days of AI Experiments: The Great AirPod Buzzing Mystery — and the Thing Only One AI Got Right 🗓️ Welcome to 30 Days of AI Experiments This November, I decided to turn my curiosity loose.For 30 days, I’m running a new AI experiment every single day to...
Oct 16, 2025 | Stress Management
Let’s start with the facts: I have eight speaking events in fourteen days.This week: two virtual events and the closing keynote at NSA Ohio in Columbus.Next week: two symposiums and two workshops in Boston — we’ll be talking about stress and AI (yes, you can use AI to...
Sep 27, 2025 | Stress Management
I’ve talked about starting a podcast for years. April 24, 2021: I bought three Kindle books on podcasting. I read half of one. Not because it was bad — that half was actually pretty good. I just didn’t take action. November 27, 2022: Black Friday. Bought another...
Aug 25, 2025 | Stress Management
The day stress poured down on me. Literally. 🪜 March 1998. The first warm day in a long time. My wife Beth and I decide to take our two-year-old Kenny out to play in the yard. When we get out there I tell Beth I’m going to unclog our front gutter. All winter long the...
Aug 5, 2025 | Stress Management
📖 Story: Jet Skis at 50 (From my book “Fry Your Chickens!”) (From my book Fry Your Chickens!) It’s a warm day in July. We’re on our annual South Carolina family vacation. I’m sharing a beach towel with my wife. I’d recently hit a milestone birthday. The...
