Why Keeping Options Open Keeps You Mediocre: The hidden tension between optionality and compounding
The future isn't a failsafe. Optionality and compounding are enemy twins. It's rare that you can
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Why the Best Things Resist Easy Discovery: The hidden treasures that only reveal themselves to those willing to dig
There’s a line someone shared recently which made me pause for a minute. It’s in Proverbs 25:2:
Your Certainty Is Making You Anxious: How civilisation became a machine for laundering uncertainty
There's an easy allure certain things. You like the train that runs on time. The interaction that goes
When Pain Means Progress: Learning to tell good pain from bad
When I walk for several hours on the treadmill under my desk, my legs hurt like hell. But the pain
Stop Fighting Over Crumbs: The Escape Velocity of Agency
Some people love a good grumble. They hate the way things are. The choices they have. The life they'
Why We Stopped Hunting Whales: The Case for Kerosene
We’re addicted to cheap energy. We once had a global industry hunting whales, to light our houses with candles
You can't bottle beauty: The Seagull Paradox
There’s an idea I’ve been toying with recently – I call it the Seagull Paradox. It’s the idea
Why everything is the way it is: The museum of passion projects
The world around you wasn’t always this way. The streets weren’t always laid out like this. The buildings
How to Use Your Time Well: Holding urgency and patience at the same time
Two voices whisper to us about the ways we use our time, and both claim to speak truth. The first
Life is Jazz: Why every wrong note is an opportunity in disguise
In jazz, every 'wrong' note is an opportunity. The great jazz trumpeter Miles Davis once said, "It&
The ladder of mastery: Why the rules you learn are meant to be transcended
Have you ever felt trapped by numbers? Metrics that at one point tracked success can begin to dictate it, chaining
Freedom of Silence: Why we conform even when we disagree
A popular movie trope is the scene where a plucky kid stands up to the bad guy, saying what the
