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  1. Issue · Aug 19, 2026

    Thank You, Cancer (opens the original)

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    Thank you, Cancer.For everything you did for me and my family.Thank you for...Showing me the importance of community. Neighbors we barely knew started showing up with meals. Family flew in from out of state, more than once, just to sit in a hospital room with me. Parents’ coworkers, people I had never actually met, pooled money and bought me a portable DVD player, which in 2002 was basically a Ferrari for a sixteen year old stuck in a bed. Then there were the friends who would just show up and k

  2. Issue · Aug 12, 2026

    The Polish Used to be the Proof. Now it's Free. (opens the original)

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    I like it raw. A little dirty. The kind that makes you shift in your seat and squirm, that lodges somewhere behind your ribs and refuses to leave, like a bad ex who still knows your passwords.I’m talking about LinkedIn posts. (Where did your mind go?)For years, polish was the proof. A clean, buttoned-up, professionally worded post told you someone had put in the work. It signaled authority. Trust, even, because look how much care went into it. Polish was expensive, so polish meant something.Then

  3. Issue · Aug 5, 2026

    Growth For Growth's Sake Is Cancer. I Would Know. (opens the original)

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    In August of 2002, a pediatrician I’d known since childhood walked across a hospital cafeteria toward my family holding a large envelope. His eyes were red. He brought us into a side room and told me I had two brain tumors.I was fifteen. I’d lost fifty pounds over eight months. My cheeks were hollow, my skin was pale, and nobody could tell me why. So here’s the part people never believe.I felt relief.Not because two tumors is good news. Because for eight months I’d been living inside a question

  4. Issue · Jul 29, 2026

    Trust Went Local. Your Business Strategy Didn't. (opens the original)

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    Five years ago, a cold email to the right person got a reply about a third of the time.Last quarter your team sent 4,200 of them.Eleven replies. Three of those were asking to be removed from the list.This didn’t happen because your copy got worse. Your copy probably got better. You hired someone, or let AI write it, or did both. The subject lines A/B tested well. The personalization tokens are doing their job. The open rates are fine.The problem isn’t the message. It’s the environment the messag

  5. Issue · Jul 22, 2026

    AI Didn't Break the C-Suite. It Exposed What Was Already Broken. (opens the original)

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    For twenty years, the executive class has been trained and rewarded for a specific skill set.Strategic thinking. Financial modeling. Growth metrics. Profit optimization.Not leadership. Not listening. Not the ability to build trust with the humans whose effort actually produces the results the executives claim credit for.MBA programs never prioritized those skills because they’re hard to grade. Incentive structures never demanded them because they’re hard to measure. Boards never required them be

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