My first collection

What advice do you have for parents of young athletes?

Put trust in the coaches, the way my parents did. But you still have to keep your finger on the pulse. That’s what I’ve been told with Leo too: «Even if you stay in the background, you have to know what’s going on.» That’s our job as parents: to support our children so they can learn to fly on

Great work requires being stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods.

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

I also tend to read Mumford’s claim through Ivan Illich’s concept of thresholds. Illich invited us to evaluate technologies and institutions by identifying relevant thresholds, which, when crossed, rendered the technology or institution counterproductive. This means that rather than declare a technology or institution either good or bad by its

Yvon Chouinard on not forcing it:

“A serious surfer doesn’t plan to go surfing next Tuesday at 2 o’clock. You go surfing when there are waves and wind and the tide is right.”

Instead of avoiding metrics, organizations should use multiple balanced metrics, combine them with qualitative measures, and maintain healthy skepticism.

Effective metric use requires continuous evaluation, adaptation to changing circumstances, and fostering a culture that questions and improves metrics.

Metrics are like “powerful drugs” — dangerous

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