Helpful Articles for the Automotive Professional

Are you really in control? In 2019 I began my path towards becoming a minimalist, one of the major problems I found wasn't that I had problems, it’s that I had way too many of them. I had this funny picture in my head that being the leader meant jumping in, leading from the front, and there is some merit to that. But it’s not quite right. Being “in control” doesn’t mean you have your hand on every rope. If you are the one person everything is relying on, then you’re not lead

A Builder’s Reflection By Michael Herzberg Smith June 2026 When people reflect on the history of the United States, they often focus on moments of great drama. The signing of the Declaration of Independence. The drafting of the Constitution. The struggles and sacrifices of war. These events deserve their place in the national story, because they defined the political birth and survival of our Republic. Yet the deeper story of America is found beyond those dramatic moments. It

A Builder’s Reflection By Michael Herzberg Smith June 2026 When the United States declared independence in 1776, the founders accomplished something extraordinary. They announced to the world that a new nation would be built upon the principle of self-government. Authority would not flow from kings or aristocracies, but from the consent of the people. Yet declaring independence was only the beginning. Winning a revolution was one challenge. Building a system capable of sustai