My first collection

Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.”
​— Attributed to Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist

Leaders also naturally presume that team members are rational and willing to be convinced to take a new direction.

Unfortunately, for most people, change is stressful, uncomfortable, and unwanted. People prefer what they know and strongly resist accepting a new path.

While good leaders make the case for the need to change, many team members view

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

This theme of policing everyone’s actions to determine whether they're humiliating or not calls to mind a film that is probably now considered “cringe”, even though it was critically acclaimed at the time, and it had me bawling my eyes out. “Everything Everywhere All At Once” was all about how nothing matters. Optimistic nihilism makes the world go

What’s one thing today that you’re doing, or that you are focused on for your life, that you believe your future self will thank you for?

An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their

Me is overrated

We is underrated

Planning is overrated

Planting is underrated

Answers are overrated

Questions are underrated

Virality is overrated

Quality is underrated

Leaders often mistake pausing for procrastination. However, the reality is that strategic pausing is a high-performance leadership move that separates reactionary decision-makers from visionary leaders. It’s not about slowing down indefinitely; it’s about creating intentional space for recalibration so that when we do move forward, we do so with