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High-Leverage Answers
How Second-Order Thinking Scales Engineering and Leadership
Yet Another Year In Reflection Article: Praxis in 2025
What I Learned From Writing SubStack Articles about Ancient Philosophy in 2025.
What Jon Read in 2025, Part 2: RPGs & Audio Books
Welcome to Part 2 of the books I read in 2025, covering Role-Playing Games and Audio Books.
What Jon Read in 2025, Part 1: Development & Entertainment
Non-Fiction and RPG Books I read this year
Number Go Up. Number Good?
Top-line numbers are seductive, but they shouldn't guide your decisions.
A Business That Makes Nothing But Money
What Henry Ford Understood About Business: Why Meaning Comes Before Money
From Theory to Practice
What Aristotle had to say about installing the discipline of action in your organization.
The Mean and the System
How Aristotle defined what is right and how organizations support finding it.
The Knowing-Doing Gap
An Aristotlian Lesson on Why Virtue Cannot Be Taught. Part 1 in a series examining Aristotle's lessons on praxis from Nichimachean Ethics.
A Girl From Arizona
How The Good Place's Eleanor Shellstrop demonstrates that praxis, and ethical leadership, develops through repeated, imperfect effort.
The Hollow Performance of Dyspraxis
How organizations mistake ritual for progress and theater for substance.
Three Effective Diagrams
UML? C4? There's no perfect system for modeling software, so build your own toolkit starting with these three practical & effective diagram types.
The Dungeon Master's Guide to Better Business Training
Why Your Next Team Training Should Include Dragons, Dice, and Difficult Conversations
The Pendulum Swings
Artistic value has always been about narrative, not just the object itself. The current AI art anxiety follows a predictable historical rhythm.
Effective Communication is Teaching
Learn why the "pedagogical triangle" is a teaching tool that can make you a a better communicator.
Put the Right Thing First
Your documentation might be 100% accurate and still completely fail your readers. The problem isn't what you're saying, it's how you're saying it.
JavaScript Made Me A Better Architect
The Hidden Gifts of a Misunderstood Language - How JavaScript Event Handling and Streams helped me prepare for Event-Driven Architecture.
Atticus Finch and the Discipline of Ethical Action
Few characters in American literature are as closely associated with moral courage as Atticus Finch.
The Archaeology of Ethics
How to excavate the values you actually live by, not the ones you think you should
Building My New Website with AI
After almost two decades, I finally updated my website. Or at least, I had a robot help me.