What does it look like when a career becomes a calling? For Ron Kitchens, Managing Partner and CEO of Greater St. Louis Inc., the answer has been a 30-year journey of turning economic potential into human possibility. I recently had the privilege of sitting down with...
The World Before and After AGI: Are We Ready? Something is coming that will change nearly everything and most of us are going about our days as if it isn’t. Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, is the point at which a machine can reason, learn, and solve...
Simon Sinek, in a Podcast interview, said that friendship may be one of the most needed – and most neglected – things in our technology-disintermediated world. We’re “connected” all day long, yet real connection is getting harder to find. Social media, the...
Building in Economic Development AI “Fallout Shelter” In eighth grade, I built a fallout shelter in my parents’ basement. (Yes, I really did.) I stockpiled my mom’s canned peaches and tomatoes and felt strangely proud of the 30 gallons of “drinkable water”...
The loss of a dear, old friend this past week has drawn me into a period of grieving. Grief is an interesting companion at times like these—uninvited, persistent, and quietly reflective. Yet it also has a way of slowing us down, inviting us to pay attention to what...
