My Progress Updates and AI Safety Idea Evaluations (No. 2)
Progress updates and idea evaluations for high impact career design.
A Harvard Kennedy School Wrap Up Post
Perhaps a few too many thoughts after a year of study at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
A Method for Aligning Purpose and Practice
If you see your work as a commitment to benefitting the world, how do you continue to summon and affirm that commitment?
Mindfulness in the Dictionary of Sustainability Behavior
How does inner awareness direct our outward impacts? I wrote a piece on the role of mindfulness in environmentally sustainable behavior, which turned out to be a fascinating investigation.
Taking Jukai in the Zen Tradition
An account of taking the Zen Buddhist precepts with photographs and an essay published in the Toshoji Monastery journal.
Bearing Witness to Racism in America, a Journey of Contemplative History in Alabama
An inter-faith expedition through American racial history and the Black experience.
2025 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute
This year’s retreat focused on education, and how mindfulness, compassion, and connection can nourish the whole human.
Next chapter: a year at the Harvard Kennedy School
Preparing for a Master’s in Public Administration – what a time for it!
The Inner Development Goals Ambassador Training
Reflections on a fascinating experiment in inner/outer change movements.
A Year of Green Business School
A (pretty long) writeup of my year in the Bard MBA in Sustainable Business program.
A Native American Bearing Witness Retreat with the Zen Peacemaker Order
Reflections (and portraits) from a week in the Big Horn Mountains.
