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Substack · Aug 20, 2026
An H2F Team's First Job Is Sales
The Army copied collegiate staffing without collegiate demand. Buy-in on a performance team is two different sales, one to soldiers and one to command.
Read on SubstackSubstack · Jul 23, 2026
Building the Next H2F Before the Model Hardens: An Implementation Blueprint for Human Performance
An implementation blueprint for building a human-performance system before the current model becomes harder to change.
Read on SubstackSubstack · Jul 21, 2026
No Time to Get Better: The Innovation Gap Inside H2F
Why a system built to sustain daily work can still fail to create space for learning, adaptation, and better decisions.
Read on SubstackSubstack · Jul 20, 2026
Counting Hours, Missing Readiness: What H2F Should Measure Instead
A case for measuring the decisions and outcomes that shape readiness, not simply the activity a program can count.
Read on SubstackSubstack · Jul 18, 2026
GLP-1 Agonists and the Soldier: Why the Right Question Is Where, Not Whether
A research synthesis on when anti-obesity pharmacotherapy can support force preservation and when the operating environment changes the risk.
Read on SubstackSubstack · Jul 17, 2026
The Difference Between a Managed H2F Program and a Led One
Two equally resourced H2F sites can produce completely different outcomes. The gap is leadership, ownership, and what the system measures.
Read on SubstackSubstack · Jul 16, 2026
You Get the Behavior You Fund: Why H2F Counts Presence and Loses Impact
How the incentives a program measures and funds can pull attention away from the readiness outcomes it claims to value.
Read on SubstackSubstack · Jul 15, 2026
Why Capable Systems Stop Improving: The Plateau Hiding Inside H2F
Why capable human-performance systems plateau, and the operating conditions that let them improve instead.
Read on SubstackSubstack · Jul 11, 2026
Glycerol for Hyperhydration: What Three Decades of Evidence Actually Supports
A measured look at fluid retention, performance effects, simpler alternatives, and the narrow situations where glycerol earns a place.
Read on SubstackSubstack · Jul 10, 2026
The New Age of Tactical Human Performance
Why large-scale combat changes human performance from a wellness function into a combat-power system.
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