Better questions, better answers

I watched a founder grill ChatGPT last week. Three attempts. Three terrible responses. Each time, he muttered about how AI was overhyped, how it didn’t understand nuance, how he’d wasted his money on the subscription. I looked at his prompts. Each one was...

The cost of shortcuts

We skip the strategy session because we’re “too busy growing.” We hire before we clarify the role because we need someone “now.” We chase the new opportunity before we’ve mastered the current one because this one “feels...

Monday is a myth

We’ve invented a calendar of false starts. Monday. The first of the month. Q1. January 1st. These aren’t beginnings—they’re permission slips we write ourselves to delay what matters. The founder who waits until Monday to make that difficult call. The...

When you’re ready

The teacher appears when the student is ready, they say. But maybe it’s backwards. Maybe the teacher was always there. The opportunity. The insight. The next move that would change everything. You just weren’t looking. Consider the radio wave. It’s...

What are you ignoring?

The best performers don’t consume more information—they ignore more of it. We’ve confused being informed with being productive—your inbox overflows. Your feed refreshes endlessly—another framework, another podcast, another urgent insight demanding...