Scary statistics: US firms have announced 50% more job cuts than at this point last year; the hiring rate has fallen to its lowest non-pandemic level in a decade; more than a quarter of the unemployed have been without a job for at least six months ( The Economist 11/6/2025) . In that environment, I've gotten a lot of "help" on my resume, and I'm not sure how helpful it was.

People don't know that they're going to deliver late. I've worked with multi-billion dollar companies and individuals, and often when someone says "I can deliver that on-time," they genuinely believe it. As project managers, it's important for us to interrogate that assertion and break down the path to completion with enough detail to see when tasks start to slip.

I've never bought myself a new computer. Through a combination of stubbornness and luck, I've replaced my computer several times, but never bought new.

Flying low-observable "stealth" aircraft means near-perfection in maintenance, or the aircraft aren't low-observable anymore. This has implications for a "big-boy war".

In 2024, I read Nikhil Suresh's " I Will F'ing Dropkick You If You Use that Spreadsheet " and I'm probably due for a drop-kicking. I've taught myself some other languages and methods, but the spreadsheet is just so versatile!

Pacific Rim is one of my favorite movies, but its data visualization is awful.  Let's talk my data-presentation philosophy!

Secretary of Defense Rock wrote recently on the "myth of Allied technological inferiority" in World War II. He was rebutting an idea that the Allies (mostly the US) developed equipment that was less sophisticated but built it in far greater numbers, thus winning the war. As I read the article I began to fear that this takedown included me. I've written a few times about industrialization in World War II and lamented our situation today: an I one of the baddies?