Insights on Building Mission-Driven Organizations
Practical lessons from 15+ years of leadership across nonprofits, real estate, and healthtech. Topics include AI implementation, nonprofit operations, business systems, and what it takes to scale organizations without losing your mission.
Collapsing the Skill Stack: How AI Turned a 10-Person Team Into One Operator
For most of the last 30 years, building anything meaningful required stitching together specialists. You needed a writer, a designer, a developer, a marketer, an ops person, a data analyst, a customer support lead, and usually a project manager to hold it all together. The work was not actually that complicated, but the coordination was. The bottleneck was never intelligence. It was friction.
AI removed that friction.
The Problem With Giving Tuesday: Noise, Fatigue, And Burnout
I remember when Giving Tuesday first appeared on the scene. Back then I was at Stupid Cancer, running operations, building digital infrastructure, and trying to hold together a national movement with passion, long nights, and whatever technology we could afford. The idea of Giving Tuesday felt refreshing. A global moment where generosity could rise above the noise of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It felt like the kind of thing a young nonprofit ecosystem needed.
But even in those early years, something became obvious. The noise did not disappear. It got louder.
