Dress code for the brain

Steve Jobs wore the same thing every day. Black mock turtleneck. Black pants. Done. Not because he lacked style. Because he understood something most people miss entirely. Every decision costs something. Not money. Energy. The kind that compounds quietly until the...

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...

The map you keep ignoring

Every leader has guiding principles. Most just can’t name them. That is the problem. Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway on a single unwavering principle: invest in businesses with durable competitive advantages, then do nothing. Not clever tactics. Not...

The weight of more

The gym down the street just added a hydromassage chair. And a smoothie bar. And something called a “recovery zone” with infrared saunas. I watched them install it all through the window while walking past outside. They are trying to solve a problem that...

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...