Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider

Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider

Friday Debrief

Saying the hard thing out loud is its own kind of courage

Aug 07, 2026
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I wrote about Sully Sullenberger recently… but this is a different angle. He put out a note last month. This one wasn’t about the Hudson. He wrote that he’s been diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s, and that he was saying it publicly on purpose, so other families sitting on the same news might feel a little freer to say it out loud too.

Here’s a man…

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