Not friends. Colleagues

There is a particular warmth that fills the room when you are among old friends. The ease. The openness. The permission to say the thing you actually mean. It is a rare and precious thing. Which is exactly why you should not mistake it for what happens at work. Your...

Go. Just go

We do our worst thinking at work. Not because we lack intelligence, but because proximity kills perspective. The urgent crowds out the essential. The tactical devours the strategic. We don’t step away to rest. We step away to see. A founder recently returned...

No VAR for this

I was watching football recently when VAR was called in. Everyone paused. The referee walked to the monitor, studied every angle, and still came back with a decision that half the stadium disputed. That stayed with me. Because we’ve somehow convinced ourselves...

Sleep on it

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...

Still unfinished

We have poured centuries of intellect and treasure into understanding the human body. And still, we are barely past the threshold. That is not discouraging. It is one of the most honest metaphors we have for what it means to pursue mastery in anything. We learn enough...