by unthink | Aug 29, 2026 | Blog Post
I used to think the point of discomfort was the discomfort. Get in the hot seat, take the heat, earn the growth. That’s the story we tell athletes, and somewhere along the way we started telling it to ourselves in business too. I don’t believe that...
by unthink | Aug 28, 2026 | Blog Post
I read a piece this week by a cookbook author I adore, Katie Parla, about a pasta shop in Gloucester, Massachusetts, run by a woman named Danielle who has an opinion about everything. The correct flour. The right shape for your sauce. A better olive oil than the one...
by unthink | Aug 27, 2026 | Blog Post
I sat in a leadership meeting last month where the real issue never got said out loud. I could feel it. Everyone in that room could feel it. We talked around it for forty five minutes before I finally named it directly. The relief was immediate. Not because the...
by unthink | Aug 26, 2026 | Blog Post
Here’s a thing that shouldn’t surprise me anymore, but does. A leadership team gets a clear diagnosis. The meeting rhythm is broken, scorecards are inconsistent, and accountability is soft. We build the fix together. It’s specific – weekly...
by unthink | Aug 25, 2026 | Blog Post
I keep coming back to fugu. Not because I’ve eaten it (I haven’t, and I’m not sure I’d volunteer), but because of what it represents. A dish of pufferfish that carries enough toxin in the wrong tissue to stop a heart within hours, and there is...
by unthink | Aug 24, 2026 | Blog Post
Fire keeps you warm. Nobody tells the child where the flame ends and the burn begins. That’s what happens when we hand kids facts without judgment. Withholding context isn’t neutral. It’s a decision about who learns to think and who doesn’t. A...
