O Captain! My Captain! The Enduring Legacy of Those Who Lead. From Walt Whitman’s tribute to Abraham Lincoln to Dead Poets Society and Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), the image of a captain reminds us that great leadership lives on in those it influences. “O Captain! My Captain!” Four words. …

Who Gets Your Wisdom If You Wait? There is a phrase many of us say so often that we stop hearing it: “I’ll do it later.” Later, when there is more time. Later, when things settle down. Later, when I feel motivated. Later, when I am less tired. Later, when …

Why September 25 Is Dolly Parton Day. Dolly Parton died on August 25, 2026, at age eighty. Within three weeks, mayors, county executives, borough presidents, and state legislators from Tennessee to Pennsylvania to California had converged on the same date to mark her speical day: September 25. Written, that’s the …

For Sale: Machine-Readable Legacy, Priced by the Terabyte.   Spirit Airlines stopped flying on May 2. Second Chapter 11 in under two years, $8.1 billion in debt, 17,000 people out of a job. The fleet went. The LaGuardia slots went to JetBlue for $58.5 million. Then Google bid $10 million …

The Man Who Thought He Peaked at Forty. There’s a cartoon going around. A man about forty, slumped in a coffee shop, saying it out loud to a friend: I’ve already peaked. Gary Vee is sharing it. His friend puts a hand on his shoulder. Forty isn’t halftime yet. It’s …