Reminders for myself

Whatever it is you’re trying to change in your life, find one or two things — books, podcasts, youtubers, whatever — that genuinely resonate and go deep on those instead of wide on everything.

Inside creative organisations, the most dangerous phrase in the room is often the most unremarkable: “This worked last time.”

When I was an “emerging” artist I wanted only to finish emerging.

If we believe and behave as though A.I. dominance is a foregone conclusion, we risk making it so.

Most of us are stuck. Stuck in jobs that are grinding us down. Stuck searching for work that won't come. Stuck facing the terror of starting over. Stuck between desperately wanting change and being terrified of what that change might cost.

We spend a lot of time in life trying to make ourselves feel bigger — to project ourselves, occupy space, command attention, demand respect — so much so that we seem to have forgotten how comforting it can be to feel small and experience the awe that comes from being silenced by something greater than ourselves, something unfathomable,

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“It’s possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That’s what happens when you drive out slack. It’s also possible to make an organization a little less efficient and improve it enormously. In order to do that, you need to reintroduce enough slack to allow the organization to breathe, reinvent itself, and make

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When Benjamin Franklin drew up his daily schedule, balancing work, reflection, and leisure, it fit the life of a man with autonomy over his time and a household to support him. When modern knowledge workers try to replicate the same philosophy, they find themselves interrupted by meetings, messages, and the unpredictable and unforgiving demands of... See more