The Variance

This article is based on my appearance on the FAFO Podcast. Each section is anchored with timestamps so you can jump directly to the moments most relevant to you — whether you are a caregiver, a disabled cook, a knife enthusiast, or an entrepreneur. The Military Mindset That Made NULU Possible Jump to: [0:24 – 5:15] I did not come from a military family. My path to West Point was almost accidental — guided by a sharp-eyed school counselor who pointed me toward the service aca

I recently joined Your World of Creativity with Mark Stinson as part of a roundtable discussion on a question every creative person eventually faces: what keeps you moving forward when life doesn't go according to plan? Rejection, uncertainty, financial pressure, health setbacks, a plan that just falls apart — every creative person hits a wall at some point. What separates the people who keep creating, leading, and growing from the ones who stall out isn't luck. It's resilien

I recently joined Victory Igberase for a great discussion on adaptive innovation but we covered a good bit more. Enjoy the interview.

On Independence as Dignity, Why Character Is the Word I Keep Coming Back To, and Why the Best Legacy Is Anonymity in Widespread Use I sat down with A.D. Edwards on Ingleside Reviews: Innovators Unveiled — a masterclass-style show on Bravehearts TV that goes beyond titles and success stories to explore the deeper journey of the people building ideas that change lives. A.D. structured the conversation in chapters, which forced me to slow down and go deeper on questions I don't

Part 2 of a 2-part series on adaptive cutting solutions for arthritis and reduced grip strength Abilities Expo 2026. We saw literally hundreds of people at our booth and we heard the same sentence probably fifty times a day. "Oh, a rocker knife. I have one of those." It was a reflex. People would walk up to the booth, see the silhouette of the NULU, and their brain would immediately categorize it based on the limited terrain of the adaptive equipment market. They’d see a curv

On Killing the Death Grip, Why Adaptive Design Isn't Charity, and Why the Cool Kids' Knife Should Be an Adaptive One I sat down with Amy Bolduc on Grounded In Maine — a warm, community-rooted podcast that explores lives lived with intention — for a wide-ranging hour-plus conversation that started with the meaning of NULU and wandered through the science of the kinetic chain, the ableism inside the disability community, the DARPA-style path for adaptive innovation, and why I w