Seven secondhand sins

You can find a great deal at the vintage market. That is not what this is about. There is a category of secondhand that looks like wisdom, feels like strategy, and passes for leadership. It is none of those things. It is borrowed. And borrowed, in business, is rarely...

Nostalgia isn’t strategy

The Canadian prime minister said it this week in Davos. Simple. Direct. True. We cling to what was. The contract that made sense three years ago. The employee who once delivered brilliance. The market position we held before everything shifted. That was then. We know...

Garbage in still stinks

We’ve heard it for decades – garbage in, garbage out. Yet in the rush to use AI, we’ve forgotten what it means. People type vague, rushed prompts and expect brilliance. They want insight, but feed confusion. They crave speed, but trade it for depth. It’s not the...

The distraction tax

What if the real cost isn’t what you’re missing—but what you’re abandoning? Every “yes” to the shiny opportunity is a “no” to the momentum you’ve built. The question isn’t what you might gain by chasing something...

What is real?

Reality used to be stable. Nations, jobs, even identities felt fixed. Today, everything is fluid. Technology redraws industries in months, not decades. Borders bend under digital migration. Work once rooted in offices now floats in clouds. The unsettling part isn’t...