At 29, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the middle of a major career transition. It was a hard reset that ultimately taught me the most important lessons of my leadership life—about empathy, self-worth, and the courage to bring your whole self to work.

I caught my AI intern in a lie last week. A company it described—specific funding round, CEO profile, everything—turned out not to exist. That's not a glitch. That's how large language models work. Here's what hallucinations are, why they happen, and how to catch them before they cost you.

Speed is a founder's greatest asset and greatest liability. When pressure takes over, marketing becomes reactive—producing whatever the business asks for, without the strategy, systems, or authority to connect that work to revenue. Here's what gets missed, and what to build instead.

Careless People's account of life inside Meta doesn't surprise anyone who's worked in tech. Behind the brilliance, there's another side—one that doesn't get splashed across the funding announcements. I've seen it. And I've learned to work within it, around it, and sometimes against it.

Twitter used to be the global town square. Now it's a lesson in what happens when you discard the values that built your brand. Every decision Musk made with X has a business parallel—and every leader should study what went wrong.