Going dark

We schedule meetings with remarkable precision. Thirty minutes to review slides. Fifteen minutes for a coffee catch-up. An hour blocked for “strategy” that becomes an email processing session interrupted by Slack notifications and the third “quick...

Garbage in still stinks

We’ve heard it for decades – garbage in, garbage out. Yet in the rush to use AI, we’ve forgotten what it means. People type vague, rushed prompts and expect brilliance. They want insight, but feed confusion. They crave speed, but trade it for depth. It’s not the...

Going over the top

My mother made the best lasagna. Seven ingredients. Done in sixty minutes. Last week, I watched a chef on YouTube make the same dish. Nineteen ingredients. Three hours. Truffle oil. Microgreens. A foam. It wasn’t lasagna anymore. It was a monument to complexity....

The echo chamber masquerade

You called it a discussion. But if only one perspective gets airtime, you’re not building commitment—you’re performing consensus. Here’s the thing: agreement without tension is just noise in a box. You might as well lock yourself in a room and argue...

Does likeability matter?

Being liked feels good. It opens doors, smooths conversations, makes meetings more pleasant. But there’s a trap. The moment you optimize for likeability, you’ve already lost something more valuable: respect. Top performers understand this tension. They...