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...

The arithmetic of ambition

We measure our dreams with a calculator. When asked what we want to achieve, we default to the most dangerous math: current state plus 10 percent. Maybe 20 if we’re feeling brave. This is the arithmetic that keeps us exactly where we are. The calculation is...

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...

When comfort become a cage

We love our own thoughts. They’re familiar. Comforting. They validate what we already believe. And therein lies the danger. The more we rehearse our existing beliefs, the more convinced we become of their truth. We mistake repetition for wisdom. Familiarity for...