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...

Too much, too fast

I think about this often. We are living in the most extraordinary information age in human history, and I am not sure we have fully reckoned with what that means. The access is stunning. In 2012 alone, IBM estimated that 2.5 exabytes of new data were generated every...

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...