by unthink | Jul 15, 2026 | Blog Post
Florence Nightingale is credited with saying, ‘I attribute my success to one thing – I never gave or took an excuse.’ Attribution of the quote is repeated and may be thin. It doesn’t matter. The question still lands: this week, what excuse did...
by unthink | Jul 14, 2026 | Blog Post
I’ve been circling an uncomfortable question this month: what happens to our thinking when the tools built to help us think get better than we are at everything except the one thing that matters most? MIT researchers gave me part of the answer. In a study led by...
by unthink | Jul 13, 2026 | Blog Post
The manager says she doesn’t have time to explain. Then she spends Thursday redoing the report herself. Funny how that works. Every hour skipped in the briefing shows up later, disguised as frustration. It just changes clothes. The founder hands off a project in...
by unthink | Jul 12, 2026 | Blog Post
We hoard our burdens like they’re treasure. Guard them. Protect others from them. Call it strength. But burdening someone isn’t an imposition. It’s an invitation. The friend who lets you carry their worry for an hour trusts you more than the one who...
by unthink | Jul 11, 2026 | Blog Post
I don’t have a team in this World Cup. Affiliations, yes, but not a team I have supported in the sport since birthright. Yes, not a choice, but parental affiliation. No specific flag, no bloodline, some childhood loyalty. And yet I’ve spent four weeks...
by unthink | Jul 10, 2026 | Blog Post
I can usually tell within the first ten minutes of sitting in on a leadership team meeting whether they’re actually solving problems or just performing agreement. The performing teams are the calm ones. Everyone nods. Nobody interrupts. It looks like the kind of...
