My first collection

1. When writing a sentence, don’t keep your reader waiting. [David Crystalvia The Browser]

The biggest tell of incompetence is evasion. Ask a direct question, and they won’t give you a direct answer. They’ll dance around it. Push harder, and they’ll dance some more. People who really know their craft know why something works and why it doesn’t. They understand the issues even if they can’t fix everything yet. Clarity reveals competence.

Bitter, belligerent and eyewateringly expensive

An industry once reluctant to pursue courtroom conflict can increasingly be found embracing it. Huge sums are being invested in defending positions and challenging governance. The brightest legal minds are hired to do the bidding of stakeholders, all with the intent of shoring up positions and

The greats don't wait.

Every major innovation started with someone doing something small. YouTube began with a few friends posting grainy videos. Amazon started by selling books from a garage. Google began as a grad school project.

What separates dreamers from doers isn't talent or luck—it's the willingness to start before feeling ready. The perfect

A question I think about a lot:

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

I also think a lot about the concept of a spiky point of view:

A spiky point of view is a perspective others can disagree with. It’s a belief you feel strongly about and are willing to advocate for. It’s your thesis about topics in your realm of expertise.

Sampling is a shortcut that when done correctly gets you pretty close to the full picture, and when done poorly leads to the wrong conclusions.

• Shane Parrish

• Decisions suffer: Without pauses, leaders react instead of strategizing—leading to short-term fixes, not long-term solutions.

• Innovation stalls: Breakthroughs don’t come from busyness. They emerge from reflection, setbacks, and unexpected insights.

This procedure can deal with the insincerities, the defensive exaggerations, the lies, the “false fronts” which characterize almost every failure in communication. These defensive distortions drop away with astonishing speed as people find that the only intent is to understand, not judge.