Anchored

The market shifts, a key employee quits, your biggest client walks away – these aren’t storms you invited. Yet here you are, in the churning center. The Stoics understood this distinction perfectly. Epictetus reminded us that while we cannot control...

Necessary friction

In a world where comfort rules, teams falter. The Lincoln cabinet, notoriously filled with rivals, produced America’s most consequential presidency. Lincoln deliberately assembled strong-minded individuals with conflicting views—what historian Doris Kearns...

The earned edge

The unseen territory “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” – Walter Wriston Most failures aren’t from what we see coming. They’re from what we don’t see at all. When you’ve traveled the...

Puppet strings

Who decides your boundaries? Your “freedom” exists in a carefully constructed box between organizations, communities, government regulations, and social expectations. Corporate ladders, algorithmic feeds, legal frameworks – these invisible puppeteers pull...

When darkness lingers, so does doubt

Sunshine isn’t just weather—it’s medicine. Those who’ve migrated from sun-drenched regions to winter-gray skies know the transformation isn’t merely external. Science confirms what our bodies already know. A Northwestern University study found...