The one who annoys you

I’ve been in rooms with brilliant leaders who hadn’t been challenged in years. You can feel it. A certain settled quality to their thinking. Confident in ways that have nothing to do with evidence. Surrounded by people who have learned, often through hard...

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...

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...