This is where I develop the ideas behind the work.
What happens when change outpaces human capacity?
How is AI changing work, leadership, attention, and agency?
Why do we reward ways of working that eventually break people?
What does rebuilding look like when going back isn't the goal?
This is the question underneath almost everything I'm writing and building right now, for organizations navigating AI and significant change, and for people rebuilding after the breaking point. Not a framework to master. A different way to see what's actually happening.
Explore Human Capacity for ChangeThe core thesis: why load, capacity, and regulation matter more than willpower.
Adoption, governance, and what stays human when the tools get faster.
What organizations get wrong about performance, and what it actually costs.
Nervous-system literacy, identity, and rebuilding after the breaking point.
The memoir, the YouTube channel, and the ideas still taking shape in public.
On what it actually looks like to rebuild in real time, instead of waiting for the after-photo.
On the quiet, terrifying knowledge that you already have permission to leave what no longer fits, and you always did.
On outgrowing the strategies that built this life, and learning to trust the pull toward something you can't fully see yet.
Most generative AI pilots aren't yet producing measurable financial return.
Evidence keeps landing on organizational causes, not technical ones, which is exactly the gap Human-First AI work sits in.
The share of companies abandoning most of their AI initiatives rose sharply in a single year.
A signal that adoption is a change problem more than a technology problem.
Disengagement and burnout show up as persistent, workplace-level patterns, not just individual ones.
One reason I don't think resilience training is the fix. My working hypothesis: it's a capacity problem, not a character problem.
Every time I go to Barnes & Noble, I walk straight to self-help to see if anybody's written this book yet. Nobody has. So here I am.
Here's what I know now that I didn't know then: there is no other side. There are just waves. Some bigger than others. Some that knock you clean off your feet, some you barely notice. You get better at swimming. But the ocean doesn't stop.
If you've ever smiled and said you were fine while your body screamed something else, if you've ever looked at your own life from the outside and thought this looks right but doesn't feel right, this one's for you. For my nieces. For Davon. For every human carrying something they were never meant to carry alone. The answer, by the way, is mostly no. But we're going to earn it together.
Some ideas need more room. A tools-focused companion, Break Open and Rebuild, is taking shape alongside it.
If these questions are yours too, stay close.
Essays, research translation, and 2 a.m. questions, published weekly under "Am I the F@cked Up One?"
Human Capacity explainers, AI and organizational change insights, and yoga or nervous-system practice, the same ideas as the writing, just in video.
Shorter-form thinking, repurposed ideas, and the day-to-day of building a human-first practice, in public.