Tag: Humility
Posted on February 9, 2026
Not Broken Enough to Fix: My First Real Lesson in Accepting Limitations
I slid inside the off-white cylinder of the MRI machine, feeling an odd kinship with my infant daughter’s diaper cream. The anticipated claustrophobia never materialized, but the technician forcibly reminded me of our age gap when the classic …
Posted on July 22, 2025
Seven Layers Deep: Understanding Your Life Through Bean Dip
You’re trapped at a mind-numbing party, and it’s as exciting as listening to your spouse retell the same story for the 389th time. The guests bore you more than reading your friend’s fanfic, the 2010s-era playlist grates like …
Posted on June 1, 2025
Sheeple Blinders: When ‘Just Asking Questions’ Threatens Weather Radars
I like to follow the news—part civic duty, part masochistic tendency. Yet sometimes I come across an article so mind bogglingly bonkers, it makes me weep for our future. We had one of those recently. Here’s the headline: …
Posted on May 13, 2025
Board Game Theory: Winning at the Games of Life
Before we had children and lost all control over our lives, my wife and I enjoyed playing board games together. Our personal philosophies on those games, however, differs somewhat. While she plays to have a pleasant evening with …
Updated on December 25, 2023
On Christmas
Tomorrow is my 34th Christmas. I have had Christmases full of joy, and some tinged by sadness. One year involved cutting down our own snow-covered Christmas tree with thermoses of hot chocolate holding off the crisp winter air. …
Posted on October 8, 2023
We Have No Songs for Great Halls and Evil Times
The past few weeks have been heartbreaking. Russia continues its unjust invasion of Ukraine, purposefully targeting civilians in an effort to break the Ukrainian’s spirit. Azerbaijan launched another attack against Armenia. And just last night, Hamas crossed from …
Posted on November 27, 2022
Humility – Leadership’s Most Important Facet
When you search ‘leadership books’ on Amazon, it returns over 30,000 results. I won’t even try to quantify the number of blogs, podcasts, newsletters, sermons, and social media posts on the subject. There must be billions of words …
Posted on November 20, 2022
The Three Questions of Life
The verdict is in: life is hard. Show me a person who claims they have never struggled and I will show you a liar. Of life’s many obstacles, understanding it is often the most difficult. Anyone can put …
Posted on June 5, 2022
Pitfalls of Pride: Failures in Leadership
The most recent mass shooting at an American elementary school is rivaled in its horror only by how the words “most recent” will likely be used again. I am not going to delve too deeply into this topic, …
Updated on April 10, 2022
Ukraine, Russia, and the Armchair Battalions
It’s an odd feeling, living in a stretch of time you know will get a paragraph in future history textbooks. With an equal measure of lies and tanks, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine on 24 February 2022. It …
