Don’t go overboard

We’ve all seen it. The grocery store shelves stripped bare before a snowstorm that delivers three inches. The project that consumes six months when three would have worked. The meeting that spawns three more meetings to discuss the first meeting. Somewhere...

Betting on fog

We lose sleep over predictions. The market forecast. The competitor’s next move. Whether this hire will work out. If the strategy lands. We spin scenarios, build models, and stress test assumptions. We place bets on fog and wonder why we’re exhausted....

Get a dog

We say we want advice. What we really want is someone to nod along. To affirm the path we’ve already chosen. To tell us we’re brilliant for thinking exactly what we’re already thinking. That’s not advice. That’s a mirror with a voice....

I’m perfect, imperfect

I’m perfect. Yet imperfect. So true. We deliver imperfect work. Every product ships with known flaws. Every service has gaps we’ve spotted. Every internal process has that one step that makes us wince. And we ship anyway. The founder who waits for...

Being still v standing still

A story is told that Walter Massa, an Italian winemaker from Tortona, offered this distinction: “We shouldn’t stand still. We should be still.” A subtle difference. One you likely caught immediately. Standing still suggests paralysis. Frozen by...