Like so many, I woke up the day after the election to what felt like a changed world. To lay my cards out, I was much more voting against the dangers of another Trump administration than out of enthusiastic embrace of a Harris agenda. Given my evaluation (which I recognize may or may not be shared by everyone […]

I like to be creative. I am most energized when I’m coming up with a fresh insight, a never before articulated metaphor, or building an original product. For many months, while I was developing The After Party course, writing the book with Nancy French, and catalyzing the production of Songs for The After Party, my […]

I’ve been on the road in recent weeks and I’d like to share with you some notes from my travels. Last week, I joined our (new!) friends at Democracy Notes for a thoughtful conversation over breakfast in Chicago. The attendees are involved in the democracy space in a wide variety of ways and it was […]

As my “founding friend” David French and I covered in a recent podcast, this has been an incredibly crazy summer for our nation. The American political landscape has been marked by an unprecedented series of ups and downs and rapid reversals of direction. Unlike many seasons where you could log off only to find most […]