Cam Jones

I'm sure some of you have recognized the four circles of Ikigai.

If we want to make an impact, we must focus on Ikigai's core. The world around us keeps shifting, which means there are changes in what we love, what we're good at, what customers need, and what they will pay for . None of this is problematic, as long as we keep our focus on purpose:... See more

As Every CEO Dan Shipper writes, most productivity tools are built for convergence, the part of creativity that involves narrowing down and refining ideas. They aren’t built for divergence, which involves opening ourselves up to new ideas and possibilities.

The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.

The group had hit a snag.

It was a familiar sticking point. One they’d run into before. Same disagreement, different day. Competing priorities, different theories about how their business actually runs. It felt like there was a fracture in the room. Subtle but familiar.

There were heads shaking; mutterings to their neighbour; talking past each... See more

Yet even here, shadows persist. If the interlocutor is silicon, what becomes of mentorship? If judgment is a distributed function, how do we teach discernment? These are not rhetorical flourishes. They are open questions. But perhaps the future of education will depend less on answers and more on attunement, on cultivating in students the... See more