Long-time friend of Fortune’s Path Bob Batcheler – "Batch" to his friends – talks about his journey with four start-ups. Batch gives advice about how to find your next great opportunity and not just your next one. A Lean leader and business consultant, Batch also talks about maintaining his network, and why it’s good to talk to people with no hope of ever getting money or favor from them.

The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is an opportunity to examine the importance of first principles. First principles are the passions and ideas that drive our behavior. They are very different from corporate mission statements, which are easily ignored. First principles can’t be ignored because they animate all our actions, but first principles can be examined and changed.

Tom talks with Ann Howard, product and technology leader and Executive Vice President for XIFIN. Ann tells how making people feel comfortable and supported leads to great results, and inspires us to feel good about the future even when things are tough in the present.

Leadership is a skill. Skills start as instincts and get developed through training. If you want to be a leader, it’s helpful to know what your natural leadership instincts are.

Technology and sales veteran Adam Zais talks about how to find great companies to work for and invest in. Tom and Adam take a trip in the way-back machine to discuss early days of the PC and how business models that worked once can now work again, even with changes in tech. Adam also talks about what it takes to be great at sales and how it's not what many people think.

I read an annoying essay with the clickbait-y headline “The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.” Instead of insight, I found an excellent example of the perils of our “data-driven decision making” obsession. Data may remove ignorance, but it does not make us wise, and decisions require wisdom.

I love meeting new people. Well, not always. I love meeting new people I find interesting, which is most people, but definitely not all people. Carm Huntress is the sort of person I love to meet, and he was a guest on the Fortune’s Path podcast this week. Carm is an entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, healthcare geek, audiophile, and father of young kids. He also understands the value of automating a manual process in healthcare, always one of my favorite business strategies.

CEO and start-up addict Carm Huntress talks about bringing healthcare out of the fax age and why strategy is misunderstood but so important. Carm talks about why he believes we'll all have digital access to our health records some day, but that it won't happen through direct to consumer approaches. You'll also hear Carm and Tom disagree about how to get the attention of healthcare executives.

Fortune’s Path Founder Tom Noser sat down with four other entrepreneurs for a conversation about hiring the right people and building a great company culture in the process.

Whether you’re picking a mate, an adopted family, or a running buddy, deciding who you spend time with is the most important decision you can make. This applies as much to who you work with as it does who you live with.