October 13, 2026
Some of life’s hardest decisions come from the fact that two opposing things can be true at the same time. You can trust your team and still verify the details. You can be confident in a decision and remain open Read more…
October 12, 2026
Dear Dad, Everything is going well here at college this semester, so you can stop worrying. I am very, very happy now. . . you would love Ichabod. He is a wonderful, wonderful man and our first three months of Read more…
October 11, 2026
When you are building something genuinely new, one of the best things that can happen is for something to go wrong early. Not because failure is good in itself. But because early failure exposes assumptions while you still have time Read more…
October 8, 2026
We often respond to a difficult situation by trying harder. More meetings. More follow-ups. More people. More features. More hours. But more effort only helps if you’re going in the right direction. If you misunderstand the customer problem, building faster Read more…
October 5, 2026
A Zen Teacher saw five of his students return from the market, riding their bicycles. When they had dismounted, the teacher asked the students, “Why are you riding your bicycles?” The first student replied, “The bicycle is carrying this sack Read more…
October 4, 2026
We spend a lot of life looking for maps. Tell me what to do. Give me the steps. Show me the right answer. Maps are useful when the destination is clear, and the terrain is familiar. They show us routes Read more…
October 1, 2026
We like to believe that good decisions come from knowing what happens next. But when I look back, many of the biggest breakthroughs in my life were not things I could have predicted. A conversation led somewhere unexpected. An opportunity Read more…
September 21, 2026
AI is becoming increasingly good at measuring the work we do. How quickly we respond. How many calls we make. How much we produce. How closely we follow a process. Think about it. If your work is mostly tasks a Read more…
September 20, 2026
There was a lazy man who prayed every night to be successful. One night, God answered. “Every morning, rise before the sun. Bathe. Climb the hill behind your house. And push against the rock at the top with all your Read more…
September 17, 2026
We build our sense of who we are from evidence. Not from what we tell ourselves, but from what we have actually done. And the most useful evidence of all is proof that you can do hard things. I think Read more…
