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 | Jun 7, 2026 | Blog Post
Cyril Northcote Parkinson said it in 1955. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Seventy years later, we still don’t believe him. Give a task two hours, it takes two hours. Give it two days, it takes two days. Not because the work is...
by unthink | May 12, 2026 | Blog Post
The founder gets the answer at 11 pm. She fires off the email. By morning, she wishes she hadn’t. We treat speed as a virtue. Respond fast. Decide fast. Ship fast. Move fast. But the brain has a different operating system running in the background that works...
by unthink | May 1, 2026 | Blog Post
The person who has tasted a truly great meal stops ordering randomly from the menu. They already know. This is not indecision. It is the opposite. It is clarity so sharp it looks, from the outside, like limitation. We celebrate range. We reward the generalist, the...
by unthink | Apr 24, 2026 | Blog Post
We live in the almost. Almost done. Almost launched. Almost ready. The accumulation of almost is the quiet tragedy of ambitious people. Neuroscience has a name for what happens when we split our attention across competing priorities. It is called cognitive switching...
