October 18, 2026
Zeno had spent years building his life as a merchant. Then, on a voyage carrying a valuable cargo, his ship was wrecked. By the time he reached Athens, much of what he owned was gone. For a while, he wandered Read more…
October 17, 2026
Someone I was mentoring asked me a good question today. When making an important decision, how do you know when to trust the data and when to trust your intuition? I think there are three useful questions. First, will more Read more…
October 16, 2026
When you ask people to change, you are often asking them to live with uncertainty for a while. A new system. A new market. A new way of working. The questions are predictable. What if this fails? What if I Read more…
October 15, 2026
If you’re in doubt about something that’s not in your life, try it. Things are so different in practice versus in theory. The only way to know is to experience it yourself. Try it examples: Err on the side of Read more…
October 14, 2026
Dissatisfaction gets a bad name. But pointed at the right things, it can be one of our most useful forces. It makes us fix a broken process, question an easy answer, improve something that isn’t good enough, or refuse to Read more…
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 10, 2026
When it comes to dealing with complex work, I believe the problem is often only half the problem. The other half is how you communicate it. If every update focuses only on what is broken, delayed, or unresolved, people quickly 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 6, 2026
One thing I have learned about worry is that it often makes us pay for a problem before it arrives. A difficult meeting next week. A decision still unresolved. Something that might go wrong. Thinking about it once may help Read more…
