Turning Points

Turning Point on The Fifth Turn™ Over the past several weeks, I have been making decisions about where my writing will live as I prepare for the release of Unfragmented. On the surface, the question is practical. Should I build a Substack? Should I continue publishing through my website? Should different aspects of my work live in different places? The decision itself is not particularly remarkable, yet I found myself returning to it repeatedly. The longer I sat with the ques

Turning Point on The Fifth Turn™ I have been thinking about this for a long time. Long enough that it is no longer something I am trying to understand, but something I have watched repeat itself in ways that are difficult to ignore. It shows up in small, everyday moments, in meetings, in conversations, in the subtle ways people respond when something does not feel right. I see it in myself, and I see it in others, including people I respect, which is perhaps what unsettles me

Turning Point on The Fifth Turn™ I ponder a lot. In all actuality, probably too much, and for the past several years, one question keeps circling back no matter how many other things I try to focus on: Where do I want my influence to live? Not in the obvious sense of title or hierarchy, but in the deeper sense of where my labor will echo: inside institutions or inside ideas? Institutions offer structure, continuity, and a tangible architecture within which human effort is or