Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.
Factories produce. Forges create. That’s the difference.
A factory runs on consistency, efficiency, and speed. A forge runs on curiosity, heat, and iteration. One’s built for output, the other for meaning.
Higher education has started acting like a factory. We measure success in throughput instead of transformation. We train staff to execute instead of think. And then we wonder why the fire feels cold.
But The Forge still exists in the corners. It’s in the people who refuse to let craft become compliance. The ones who experiment, who rebuild, who care about the shape of the metal, not just the count of it.
So here’s your thought: are you running a factory this week or tending a forge? One pays the bills. The other builds the future.
You’re walking The Ember Walk. The forge is yours now. Go make something worth the heat.
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