10/30/2026
This is not an ad or product placement. This message just resonates.
There's a market café in Livingston Manor I stop at whenever I'm heading home from business upstate. It sure beats the fast food options.
On a recent stop, I found a pint of Ice Cream For Bears, made from all the good stuff: grass-fed dairy, eggs, and sweetened only with raw honey.
Nothing about it is new. It's a claw back to the past, fittingly enough. And that is the message that hit me when I pulled off the lid and read this mantra:
"THE FUTURE OF FOOD IS IN THE PAST."
I have often said that our greatest wisdom is behind us, not ahead of us. I wrote about it a few months ago in a newsletter edition titled “Ancient Wisdom. Modern Leaders.” (See link in comments).
And it dawned on me. As we move deeper into the age of AI, many of us will return to a more basic life. Homesteading will keep growing, and so will the move away from cities. Along the way, we may rediscover much of what we once knew.
I think leadership works the same way. The tools keep changing, but what makes people want to follow you hasn't changed in thousands of years.
Comment if you agree. And especially if you don't. 😉