Archive - Informed Dissent

May 2025

Stop optimizing what doesn't matter

What a manufacturing legend taught me about business, bottlenecks, and focus

May 28 •

Tracing freedom

When my daughter’s fingertips met the Vietnam Wall, the true price of liberty came into focus.

May 27 •

Where's the beef?

Why voter apathy is a calculated choice, and what it’ll take to get North Texans back to the polls

May 18 •

Redesign to win

How small tweaks to broken systems unlock massive improvements

May 15 •

I made my mom cry

How my mother’s quiet service and boundless optimism in Jim Crow Mississippi shaped a legacy of love and storytelling.

May 12 •

Cost of sitting out

When the reasonable stay home, the ruthless run the show.

May 5 •

Quiet before the crash

How collective silence lets extremists steer the agenda—until the reckoning hits us all at once.

May 4 •

April 2025

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