Cam Jones

Being invisible doesn’t mean being absent. It means being purposefully light. It means resisting the urge to fill the space or solve the problem. It means shifting from holding the spotlight to holding the space.

Here are five small actions that make a big difference:

Open with contribution, not context.Instead of kicking off with a long intro,... See more

We've been here before. The symptoms repeat across time with eerie consistency. Politics feels paralyzed—parties fight but solve nothing. Leaders are reactive, never visionary. Jobs become transactional hell. Work becomes about survival, not meaning. The news is background static—constant crisis with no resolution. Everything feels heavy and gray... See more

In other words, if you can tell a convincing growth story, it's much easier to grow. The corollary, though, is that when a growth company stops growing, when it becomes "mature," it experiences a massive sell-off of its stock, as its share price plummets to a tenth or less of the old "growth" valuation. That's why the biggest tech companies in the... See more

I've been traveling for 30+ years. I've had all the troubles one can possibly imagine. By now, I know exactly what I want and I could go on for another few pages. Honestly, my travel preferences have evolved into a body of knowledge that could rival an EU Commission Directive. And I haven't even discussed my demands for trains (few transfers... See more

In a 2017 interview, Ev Williams (the founder of Twitter), said something that has stuck with me since: “the trouble with algorithms, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it... See more

That slow erosion of inner presence is the heart of The Thinker’s essay on burnout. Drawing on philosophers Byung-Chul Han and Heidegger, he writes about how modern workers are conditioned to optimize, perform, and self-regulate until their labor becomes disconnected from any internal source. Meaning isn’t lost through exhaustion, it rather slips... See more