I’ve spent my whole life watching people. Friends, strangers, students, CEOs, lovers, neighbours. I watch how they move through the world, how they avoid themselves, how they numb, how they pretend. I watch the cracks where truth slips out. The older you get, the more...
(Inspired by Dan Pontefract’s Work-Life Bloom) Work-life balance is bullshit. There, I said it. The phrase has been shoved down our throats for decades, sold to us like some magic formula where career and personal life sit on opposite ends of a teeter-totter. As if...
(Inspired by Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game) Most people run their life and their business like it’s a game they can win. That’s why they flame out, sell out, or disappear. Sinek calls it the difference between finite and infinite games. Finite games have winners and...
(Inspired by Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point) Everyone wants to “go viral.” That phrase alone makes my skin crawl. Viral is a buzzword people throw around when they have no clue what actually makes an idea spread. The truth is, big ideas don’t take off because...
(Inspired by Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc.) The myth is that creativity dies when people run out of ideas. That’s bullshit. Creativity dies when people are too afraid to share the ideas they already have. Ed Catmull built Pixar on one principle: protect creativity at...
