People used to use recipe books. They had a list of ingredients and short instructions describing how and when to add each of the ingredients…boom, you had your dish.


People used to use recipe books. They had a list of ingredients and short instructions describing how and when to add each of the ingredients…boom, you had your dish.

No one gets between me and the commander. Not the Aide, XO, Secretary, Chief of Staff..no one. My relationship with the commander is too important to be filtered. He believes

It’s binary. There are yes PAOs and no PAOs. It must have something to do with one’s nature and tendencies. When the media approaches do you think of an

Only communicate in order to enable action. If you’re about to communicate for anything other than action, stop and wonder why. Even informing or making someone aware of something enables

Feral cats can be nasty. Every once in a while you’ll see them sprinting from dumpster to dumpster, they live out in the wild, they’re street smart and potentially dangerous. In my

The average American types 38-40 words per minute. The average English sentence length is about 14 words. Do the math: you’ve got time to make an impact. This is great

Remember last time something like this happened? I don’t know for sure, but I think it was a few months ago. I probably have that email saved in my sent

There’s almost always one good reason to do nothing. Maybe it’s too risky. Maybe it’s too uncomfortable to respond to that media query. Maybe somebody will be offended if you

Here’s the thesis of a great post that I was considering, “PAOs should only take pictures when appropriate.” That’s boring. “Of course. Yeah. Whatever,” we might say. We’d likely say

You think anyone tells us what to do? They don’t. No one tells us what to do in terms of public affairs, because that’s my job. We take advice, feedback,