
Make it a Great Monday: Nelly Korda Reaching Back
A touching story about Nelly Korda returning to the golf course where she learned the game and honoring the people who helped shape her journey.

A touching story about Nelly Korda returning to the golf course where she learned the game and honoring the people who helped shape her journey.

A small-town baseball coach. Sixty years of showing up. A top-five day that redefined what true relevance really means.

As AI accelerates design and operations, weak foundations become visible. Why infrastructure, ingestion, and governance now matter most.

A reflection on six career questions, Paul Graham’s essay How to Do Great Work, and why meaningful work often begins at the fractal edge of curiosity.

A reflection on urgency, relevance, and why the most important problems in manufacturing form quietly—long before they demand attention.

A reflection on golf, career change, and resilience. When the ball lands somewhere unexpected, the only question is how you play the next shot.

A winter reflection on rest, preparation, and quiet progress—why still seasons aren’t setbacks, but necessary groundwork for what comes next.

Every year has a beginning. Few have a grounding. A family story of inheritance, history, and continuity at the start of a new year.

A reflective opening from RELEVANCE on what makes a life meaningful beyond visibility, success, or applause. Rooting, rising, and reaching.

A reflective Isle of Wight journey: trains, ferries, tennis, Fox Norton, and lessons on relevance, second acts, and the quiet wisdom of showing up.

In RELEVANCE, I explore how every phase of life mirrors the body’s own movement: rooting for balance, rising for strength, and reaching for purpose.

Golfing my ball at The Richmond Golf Club — 79 on a sunny winter day with Dr. David Ford and David Bradley. One step closer to single digits.

Here’s an excellent mantra for Make it a Great Monday. It comes from Derek Sivers, author, philosopher, and entrepreneur. The mantra is the title of

I wrote about futurist and technology expert, Peter Leyden on a Make It a Great Monday in February 2022. Revisiting his latest work today, I

Making better cities on Make a Great Monday. Here comes a ‘why didn’t we think of this sooner moment.’ When reading this, remember the world’s

I’ve previously written about the popular motivational term ‘blissfully dissatisfied’. See Blissfully Dissatisfied and Fit – May 1, 2020. Motivational speaker Ed Mylett popularised the

Dear Harvey, After the 12-hour flight back from Autodesk University in San Diego, it was great to get outside and golf my ball this weekend.

Dear Harvey, It is Make it a Great Monday and truer words have never been spoken than your famous quip, “If you play golf, you

World Mental Health Day is observed each October 10th to raise awareness of mental health issues. The theme for World Mental Health Day 2024 is

It’s Make it a Great Monday, and I can’t stop thinking about something I saw in Tim Ferris’s 5-Bullet Friday email update. It made me

“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.” – Bertrand Russell Today

In engineering, ‘grounding’ refers to connecting an electrical circuit or device to the Earth (or a reference ground) to ensure safety and stability. This connection

Good morning, Last week, I launched a passion project, ‘every gPage Singletary thing’ at http://www.gpagesingletary.com with this blog post: The first Nugget from Dad. For

Fourteen years ago this week, when Sally started university, I sent the very first Nugget from Dad. It was a one paragraph message, titled ‘Make

Let me share what I’m up to here. What exactly is every gPage Singletary thing? First, I taught myself how to build a website using

There’s a kind of thinking you do without trying to. I’m increasingly convinced this type of thinking is not merely helpful in solving hard problems but necessary. The tricky part is, you can only control it indirectly.

Good morning, hoot hoot children, You have a telegram from your father. I penned Mum a ditty called ‘BETTER TOGETHER’ and typed the footnote on

Hey peeps, We lost a special member of the Tar Heel family yesterday in Chapel Hill. Eric Montross was a fabulous player, but read this

Good Monday morning all, Thinking of Jim and, of course, Mikey this morning from London. Today is Jim’s full military burial service at Arlington Memorial

Emily & Kyle Cazzetta April 15, 2023 Father of the bride toast G. Page Singletary Good evening. What a joy, as father-of-the-bride, to toast Emily

Meet Otto Desć: Autodesk’s 3-spot feature at the Academy Awards. Autodesk is how the world gets designed and made — including the beautiful films that

“Sitges is a coastal town in Spain’s Catalonia region, southwest of Barcelona, backed by the mountainous Parc Natural del Garraf. It’s known for its Mediterranean

Hey girls. While Sally and mom ran around doing design business in Paris, I enjoyed the weekend in Richmond. I focused on my (new) personal

Hello daughters, Uncle Ricky making more memories in parts unknown. Ricky exemplifies a quote from one of my favorite motivational speakers and sales trainers, Jim

Hello girls, Can the Georgia Bulldogs make it two in a row? We will find out tonight when they take on cinderella TCU for the

Happy New Year, It is the time of year when I send out my Whole Person Worksheet and share my ever-evolving process for intention and goal

Lucy’s Graduation DittyShe’s Going PlacesBy: G Page Singletary (May 13, 2022) YoungestLucy May SingletaryShe’s going places Nashville birthDoctors on alertBut grace of GodShe’s going places WiseBeyond her yearsFrom

Morning Lucy, We certainly had never heard of the Padstow Obby Oss Festival when we booked our travel to Cornwall. This May Day, locals will spend

Congrats, Trey, on receiving your ring this past weekend in College Station. “One of the greatest moments during an Aggie’s time at Texas

Lucy May! Adam Lucas says it best: The Mike Krzyzewski era is done and the Hubert Davis era is just beginning and I never

Good morning Lucy, How was the retreat to the Flippen Quiet House? I’ve been praying for you and hope you got my letter. It was

For as long as I can remember, the first thing I do after every North Carolina Tar Heel basketball game is read an Adam Lucas

Dearest Lucy, We’ll never really know, but it’s widely rumored the North door to St. Edwards Church in Stow-on-the-Wold, England, inspired J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy

Hey Lucy, I’ve been enjoying learning about Peter Leyden’s work. Peter is a futurist who spent some time doing research as a Senior Fellow at
Hey Lucy, This is an excellent video to understand the breadth and depth of Autodesk’s portfolio of products. Give it a spin, or at least

Great fun in Sayulita, Mexico, attending the wedding of family friend Allie (Anderson) and Rawley Lind. Allie is the oldest of four girls and we

The first ONE is the best ONE! Great day with Brian Utley, Greg Meserole, and Ty Willis. Finally able to match stories with Emily Singletary
“In transporting the breath, the inhalation must be full. When it is full, it has big capacity. When it has big capacity, it can be

Today officially starts Lucy’s second semester Junior Year of college, which means I need to get my nuggets on. Wow! Time flies, even during a

In this crazy year of 2020 . . . Mack Brown came up Oranges versus Jimbo Fisher and the Aggies. Tar

EA is buying Codemasters for $1.2 billion to take lead in racing game market. Codemaster is a UK-based company, so another reason to visit London

Lucy, A good week on Cape San Blas, but also nice to be back in Austin. Above photo with Uncle Chip in Apalachicola. Taylor and

Hey Lucy, As you know, we zipped over to Cape San Blas this weekend, and the WiFi is solid; the view from ‘my back porch

Lucy, A while back, I shared ‘I am Woman’ and Jim Loehr on FaaFF and the missing link from my bookshelves, my signed and annotated copy of Jim

Hey Lucy, Big day in Singletary-land with both Emily (YETI) and Taylor (CJ Coleman – London) starting new jobs. I’m proud of those two for

Hello, LuLu on MiaGM, Good times in College Station on Friday night, catching up with your peeps. I got down to brass tacks with Mays

Mornin’ Lucy, Good times yesterday walking and talking with Stanford freshman, Sadie Englemann, plus her dad and my good friend Mike Englemann. Sadie is not

Lucy, A fun four-ball yesterday, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, with three of my favorites: Kyle Cazzetta, Paul Pullen, and Taylor Wilkinson. This was Taylor’s

Lucy, I’ve been thinking a lot these past weeks about two of my top five most impactful life coaches or motivators: Stephen Covey and Jim

On Friday, I wrote about being a Starting Pitcher and Incubation at Autodesk. I also promised to share how I plan to turn my proposal

Great time yesterday in our golf community with nearly every-Singletary-one of us cheering for these young ladies as they went three extra holes to determine a

We woke up to a sweet hand-written note from Fort Herndon, after Sunday’s birthday celebration for Jim. It got me thinking about ditties. You know the
Over at Mission Central Unit B (our nextdoor neighbors house), Cathy and I celebrated Commander and Chief Jim Herndon’s 89th birthday last night. See Just

Celebrating a 92% Whoop recovery score on the morning after two rounds of tournament golf . . . Scores in the low 80s . . . And a

This is a must-read if it inspires you to see creative professionals in their eighties doing amazing work! Also, for golf nuts like me who