Recognition is so deeply human that we practice it even when no one is there.

The decades-long erosion of never speaking leaves nothing you can point to.

Which explains why people stay in the wrong job, the wrong relationship, the wrong version of themselves for years.

Not because they don’t know better, but because action demands stepping into an unrehearsed future.

Hamlet names the real enemy: uncertainty.

Not pain or effort... See more

"It is incredible how often just writing down what you're trying to say can help clarify things. If there isn't a bullet point outline of what you're trying to say, I promise it will end up convoluted."

- Alex Morris

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2026 predictions | Motorsports edition

Shift Happens #10 | Weekly pivots where motorsport collides with tech and culture.

TONI COWAN-BROWN

JAN 6

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Thank you for being here. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Idée Fixe, the newsletter for curious minds. I’m Toni Cowan-Brown, a... See more

It takes a lot of work to make something simple. — Steve Wozniak

One of the most realistic parts of Lord of the Rings is that almost no one wanted to get involved, until it was very nearly too late. — Ricki Tarr

Everyone searches for opportunities while running from problems, missing that they’re the same thing. Problems aren’t obstacles to... See more

Community in motion

Patrick Kho reports on a new vision for third spaces—those gathering spaces beyond the workplace and the home. This new version is less a physical space where communities might (or might not) interact, and more intentional collectives that are “people first, space second.”

The Real Audit

If I were to make my own balance sheet today, it would look nothing like the ones we file at work.

It would have lines like these:

Time spent with people who make me better.

Moments I chose silence over argument.

Laughter shared without agenda.

Apologies made without ego.

Effort I gave when no one was watching.

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I feel like I’m always wanting to make a space where people just feel safe enough to not have to do very much, and that, in not doing much, they can then get to the business of the soul and the spirit

I am not a brand. 

I am a body of work.