The Variance

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

On Perseverance as the Boat and Lessons as the Wake, Why We Went Back to Adaptive, and Why the Over-50 Team Is My Trade Secret I sat down with Dave Bookbinder on Behind the Numbers — a show that goes beyond the data to explore the people, stories, and insights that drive business success. Dave is a business valuation expert and best-selling author, which meant the conversation kept snapping back to the questions founders actually need to answer: how do you scale responsibly,

On Cutting Without Grip, Why Kimberly's MS Diagnosis Made Her a Perfect Product Advisor, and How Adaptive Design Serves Anyone Who's One Second From a Diagnosis I sat down with Kimberly Nash on The Chronic Truth Podcast — a show built specifically for people navigating chronic illness diagnoses and searching for community and practical answers. Kimberly was recently diagnosed with MS and is losing fine motor control in her hands. She's exactly who NULU was built for, and our

On the In Medias Res Life, Why Ego Death Is Leadership, and How to Build Your Own Lightning I sat down with Matt Levenhagen on The Builders Podcast — a show dedicated to uncovering the first principles behind building businesses, products, and services — for a conversation that ran a little over an hour and covered ground I don't always get to explore in this depth. Matt is a builder himself (Unified Web Design, Unified Plugins) and asks the kinds of questions you only get fr

On Character as Currency, Ego Death as Leadership Strategy, and Why Retirement Is a Slide Toward Irrelevance I sat down with Dwight Heck on the Give A Heck Podcast — a show built around helping people live life on purpose, not by accident — for a wide-ranging hour-plus conversation that started with my origin story and ended somewhere I didn't expect: an argument against retirement as a life goal, and a case for character as the actual currency of leadership. Along the way we

On Military Training as Entrepreneur Training, Why Adaptation Isn't Surrender, and Why Advice Is Just Information I sat down with Peter Turner on The Break It Down Show — a veteran-led interview show with an audience of military entrepreneurs, creators, and adaptive innovators — for a nearly hour-long conversation that felt like two military guys who've been through the corporate wringer comparing notes. We covered everything from the accidental origin of NULU to why the sand

On the Science of Where Ideas Come From, Why Storytelling Is the Real Moat, and Regenerative Braking for Aging I sat down with Robert Gaines on the Free Time Mastermind Podcast — a show he built around helping entrepreneurs and inventors — for a wide-ranging conversation that started with red legs and West Point, moved through the biology of ideation, wandered into the crooked economics of the U.S. Patent Office, and ended on a philosophy I've been calling regenerative brakin

Why we accept gifts we'd never buy ourselves — and what adaptive-product brands and care-givers can learn from it. When Margaret's daughter set the wrapped box on the kitchen table last spring, Margaret assumed it was another candle. She was seventy-eight, her birthdays had become predictable, and macular degeneration had quietly rearranged what she could still enjoy about them. She hadn't finished a novel in almost a year. She had stopped mentioning it. Inside the box was a