La passegiata

Italians figured out something we forgot. Every evening, in every piazza, they walk. No agenda. No podcast. No deliverable. Just movement and presence and the occasional gelato. La passeggiata. The ritual stroll. We call it inefficient. They call it essential. The...

The comfortable illusion of knowing

I’ve watched it happen more times than I can count. An individual reads a book. A good one. Finds the insight that unlocks something. And then stops there. There’s a seductive feeling that comes with the click of understanding. It feels like an arrival. It...

Sit with it

We are always thinking. We are rarely with our thinking. There is a difference. When the calendar clears, and the urgent noise fades, something unusual happens. The mind does not go quiet. It goes curiously. Strange thoughts surface. An old memory lands next to a new...

We’re not busy. We’re distracted

We tell ourselves we don’t have enough time. The calendar is full. The inbox never empties. The list grows faster than we work through it. But time is not scarce. Focus is. We have built environments that make sustained attention nearly impossible. Tabs stacked...

Are we getting stupid?

I have a confession. I use AI every day. I find it genuinely remarkable. It helps me think faster, research deeper, and draft things I would have spent hours on. I am not anti-AI. Not even close. But I am starting to worry. A colleague of mine, Alex Meyer, lives and...