Leadership

The tariff gambit: Trump's long game and America's trade reckoning

On April 2, 2025, Donald Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by a group of advisors, and declared what he termed "Liberation Day.” With

Bedtime stories can’t buy G-Wagons

Some lunch meetings have more impact than others. Ron and Jacob’s once-a-quarter bread-breaking, something they’d held sacred since they met almost four ye

Free people form community

True community emerges when free individuals come together as equals, unburdened by hierarchy or dependency. Yet this ideal is fragile and often undone by

Roosevelt’s Arena: Today’s CEOs face dust, sweat, and torched Teslas

In the spring of 2021, the co-founders of Basecamp, a software company known for its project management tools, decided that political discussions had no pl

Networking your way to loneliness

During lunch one day, Ron tried to convince Jacob to skip his child’s choir concert in favor of attending a “fireside chat,” a gathering that would surely