Thought provoking

Art is always the result of constraint. To believe that it rises higher as it becomes freer is to believe that what keeps a kite from rising is its string. Kant’s dove, which thought it could fly better without the air to trouble its wings, did not realize that in order to fly, it had to have the air’s resistance to support its wings. Likewise art... See more

Strategy is planning your own surprise party without ruining the surprise.

Until recently, though, that same appetite for bold, operational problem-solving wasn’t matched in their communications. This changed in 2019, when they partnered with creative agency GUT to bring the same rigour to creative bravery that they’d applied to operational bravery. Together, they built a proprietary Bravery ScaleTM - a framework to... See more

He compares the longing for unbounded autonomy to a dove “cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels,” imagining that “it could do even better in airless space.”