Rosemary Goodwin

If you can keep a certain routine after you have failed, if you can continue in your life as if nothing out of the ordinary has happened, you will signal to your system that you can indeed treat triumph and disaster just the same and that things will be okay. And eventually, they hopefully will.

• Andrea Petkovic

Just because something got you the right result doesn’t mean it was the right thing to do in the first place.

The real edge we have :
Not scale.
Not speed.
​Voice.

In a world of sameness, your voice is your personal brand.
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And in an AI-powered world, it’s the one thing no tool can fake.

• Ask useful questions

• Show up before you’re expected

• Make big promises and keep them

• Identify errors and flaws and self-correct

• Default to optimism

• Do work worth doing

• Build a useful network worth outsourcing work to

• Show your work

• Develop good taste

• Generously invite feedback

• Make productive decisions

• Communicate with precision

Updates are presented not just as status reports, but as crucial tools for alignment, building trust, ensuring visibility, and enabling asynchronous communication within and across teams.

Emphasize outcomes and progress towards goals rather than simply listing tasks completed. Quantifying impact where possible adds significant value.

Much critical knowledge is tacit, built through navigating complex situations, making mistakes, and observing outcomes.

Failure and reflection are powerful learning tools.

We say something quick and confident, because sounding certain feels safer than pausing to find the truth.

Faking it doesn’t help you learn, it just locks you deeper into the version of yourself that’s afraid to change. Real growth is messy and uncomfortable, and happens when you break the mask. When you raise your hand and say, “I’m not sure.”

• Conor

The illiterate of the 21st century will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

—Alvin Toffler

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

— André Gid