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06/05/2026

Russell Otway playing Lambada with the Miami Vibez Steel Orchestra.

06/04/2026

Our very own Russell Otway Music performed with the Miami Vibez Steel Orchestra in June 2018. 🥁🛢️

Lambada on Four Tenor Bass Pan | Miami Vibez Steel Orchestra | Curry Duck Festival 2018

Live steelpan performance of “Lambada” on four tenor bass pans with the Miami Vibez Steel Orchestra at the 1st Annual Curry Duck Festival – Coral Springs Sportsplex, Coral Springs, Florida. June 3, 2018.

Performed by Russell Otway | U.S. Navy Veteran | Steelpan Musician and Educator

The tenor bass pan is one of the most powerful voices in the steelpan family. Four pans, one melody, one groove – this is South Florida steel pan culture live.

🔗 Link in the comments.

05/29/2026

Great music by Pious, recorded by our very own Russ Otway.

05/27/2026

Amazing music captured by Russell Otway Music. 🥁🛢️

05/23/2026

History keeps making the same promise: this technology will finally be the one that ends work as we know it.

The Economist’s latest piece, “The Jobs Apocalypse: A (Very) Short History,” is worth your time. The throughline is clarifying: new technologies have never spread fast enough to create mass, sustained unemployment. Not the steam engine. Not electrification. Not computers.

But here is what that history does not fully account for: labor productivity is now at record levels. We are extracting more output per worker than at any point in modern economic history, and the pace of that extraction is accelerating.

That creates a compounding question most companies are not asking out loud.

If you can produce the same revenue with fewer people, do you have an obligation to the communities absorbing that labor displacement? And if your competitors are asking themselves the same math problem, where does your next competitive advantage actually come from?

The honest answer is: not from headcount reduction alone.

Companies that survive the next decade of AI-driven productivity gains will be the ones that figure out how to convert efficiency into capability, not just cost savings. The firms still hiring strategically, investing in institutional knowledge, and building reputations that attract both clients and talent are the ones playing a longer game.

Displacement is real. So is opportunity. The question is which one your organization is actively planning for.

05/19/2026

Beautiful Steelpan/steel drum music. 🥁

Steel drum beats with Pius on my Carnival Cruise to Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. Enjoy these Caribbean steelpan vibes from Russell Otway Music, featuring isl...

05/11/2026

Interesting read:

“First, one thing that separates Miami from other cities is the makeup of its population. No, not just Cubans, but more generally, the large percentage of immigrants.

Miami is a minority-majority city with most of the population made up by foreign-born people and their offspring. The research literature consistently reports that immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans and immigrants create a buffer against crime. Miami’s foreign-origin population may be a key factor explaining its low crime rate, especially for violent crimes.”

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“Miami’s homicide rate is the envy of other U.S. cities. We researched why | Opinion”
Miami Herald
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We think that there are three Miami-specific features that can help explain this remarkable trend.

03/20/2026

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More than 2 million California households rely on domestic workers to care for their loved ones and keep their living space clean and safe, but new research by the Workplace Justice Lab, a multi-institutional partnership including Northwestern University and Rutgers University reveals that many of t...

03/02/2026

“Business isn’t political.”

That sentence aged poorly.

Harvard Business Review just published “Rethinking Strategy in a Hyperpolitical World” (Feb 26, 2026) and the premise is clear:

The boundary between business and politics has effectively vanished.

We’re no longer operating in a world where politics is a “risk factor” in the appendix of a strategy deck.

It’s now a core strategic variable.

Here’s what struck me most:

1. Every decision is interpreted through a social lens.

2. Silence can be political.

3. Taking a stance can fracture teams, alienate customers, or create regulatory risk.

4. Avoiding engagement altogether is often impossible.

As a founder, and as a veteran, I see this playing out daily.

Strategy today requires more than market analysis.

It requires:

🔹 Clear principles before crisis hits
🔸 Ethical foresight (not reactive statements)
🔹 Alignment between leadership beliefs and company capability
🔸 Discipline in communication
🔹 The humility to learn publicly

One insight from the article that resonates deeply:

Companies don’t have democratic legitimacy to make society’s political decisions —
but they do have a responsibility to protect the foundations that allow business to exist:

🔹 Rule of law
🔸 Social order
🔹 Credible institutions
🔸 Civic participation

That’s not activism.
That’s long-term strategy.

We’re in a moment where geopolitics, AI disruption, tariffs, culture wars, and talent mobility are shaping competitive advantage as much as pricing models and product differentiation.

You can’t build a five-year plan without political literacy anymore.

The real leadership challenge isn’t choosing sides.

It’s building organizations resilient enough to operate across differences.

Curious:

How are you integrating political and ethical variables into your strategic planning in 2026?

📸 Image credit: Deagreez/Getty Images (via Harvard Business Review)

02/28/2026

Restaurants, hotels, bars, nightclubs, social clubs, take stock of this…

Contractors, subcontractors, prime contractors, construction contractors, HVAC companies, electrical contractors, mechanical engineers, plumbing contractors, roofers, carpenters, take stock of this… 👇