A word of advice to those of you who think you can grow a successful and sustainable business just by telling someone to believe you or invest in you without laying the groundwork. Unless you are willing to put in the work and embrace a more progressive, strategic, thoughtful, and patient approach, you will never be able to grow a sustainable business.

Making a different requires knowledge, getting experience, disappointment, and then doubling down and going at it again. Many who call themselves advocates don’t do that. I encourage you that if you truly want to make a difference; learn, invest your time as well as your money, and be patient. Do not merely yell loudly for your cause.

I argue that there is different, bureaucratic golden rule at play– the guy with the gold makes up the rules. Those with the power to dole out funds can influence and achieve their intended goals through the scoring criteria they use to evaluative proposals, who they place on the review section panels and who they chose to use. Through these mechanisms, they could (and perhaps do) influence what and who gets selected.

Research dollars matter most when they target questions, not just causes.

Progress comes when we stop driving down the middle and start finding the edge.

Convergent research advances science — convergent thinking can stall it.

Healthcare costs aren’t mysterious — they’re the product of design, incentives, and engagement.

Power abroad begins with stability at home — context decides credibility.

Just like racing, in my cancer world, I need to get the research car in the best position possible before I turn it over to the closing driver – maybe that’s NIH, a drug company, or someone else. But we have to build momentum if we want a chance to win. That’s why I’m working and investing in the early stages of the research race.

Only focusing on one or two legs doesn’t get us where we need to be as fast as needed. This is kind of how cancer treatment development and research works. Think of it like a cancer relay race.

Be cautious if reading or listening to news from international outlets, understand the rules they are playing by.

If you’re doing business in another county, you need to understand the rules and comply.

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How many legs does a dog have if you call a tail a leg? Still four. Saying it doesn't make it true. To get to the “truth” we need to filter out things that could alter our perception.

The variation in cost of living across the country factors into recent discussions of the One Big Beautiful Bill but rarely gets any focus. Uniform application of deductions or limitations raises questions of fairness and equity related to where live across the country.

With all the recent negotiations in Congress related to the new One Big Beautiful Bill, I thought I would offer an outline of the various...

The point: you need to get into the details and find out how things are put together; how exactly they work. to move forward effectively and efficiently...in racing and in cancer research.

If we would look at things under the umbrella of finiteness, tough choices would be much clearer– and our goals would be achievable.

Today ,we face a massive national debt – $36 trillion – regularly spending more as a country than we take in. This is unsustainable and more importantly unbearable for future taxpayers. But to better understand our nation’s finances and debt, there are four important questions we need to answer.

The trick is to spread all your peanut butter evenly without tearing the bread. It’s the same when you budget. Think about this in the context of the Federal budget. The peanut butter is funding or resources, and the bread are the programs funded. Too little funding in one spot, and something suffers. The federal budget and related Congressional debates can feel far removed for most of us, but putting it in a different context hopefully helps people engage.