Building What Is Next

Welcome to my newsletter, Building What’s Next where I write about the forces reshaping our world and what we should do about them.

The world is changing faster than the institutions we rely on to navigate it.

You can see it everywhere: in classrooms adapting to AI, in workplaces facing a shifting workforce, in markets reshaped by competition among nations, and in the values that hold our communities together. Yet many of our public policies, business practices, and educational systems were built for a different era.

We’re trying to solve twenty-first-century problems with twentieth-century institutions.

This is where I explore what comes next.

As an entrepreneur, social scientist, educator, and author, I’ve spent more than three decades building businesses, developing learning solutions, and working across cultures.

Along the way, I’ve learned that our biggest challenges are rarely isolated. They’re connected. My perspective also draws on cultural anthropology and comparative values research, including the work of Geert Hofstede, Edward T. Hall, and the World Values Survey, to understand why people and societies respond differently to change.

Here, I’ll periodically write about the forces shaping America and our place in the world: AI, education, workforce readiness, entrepreneurship, legal immigration, innovation, national security, demographics, culture, and the changing global economy. More importantly, I’ll explore how they intersect.

It’s about asking better questions. What’s changing? Why? Why does it matter? And what should we build next? I’ll look for commonsense, practical solutions grounded in evidence rather than ideology, challenge assumptions (including my own), and focus on the next decade, not just the next election.

Because the future isn’t something that happens to us. It’s something we build.

If that’s a conversation you’d like to be part of, I’d love to have you join me.