ON BEING SERIOUS At seventeen, I was supposed to be reading my textbooks. Instead, I was reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This was not, on paper, a sensible…

QUIETLY DIFFERENT Practicing peace in public while the world is still messy is a subtle way of saying that peace isn’t an outcome to negotiate. What I appreciate most about…

Up from half a million active users in early 2022, Koho's revenue run rate is past $100 million, doubled year over year, run by a team of roughly 250 people.…

January is when straight lines have their annual renaissance. New year. New goals. New roadmaps. New decks with diagonals heading bravely up and to the right. Everyone’s a little more…

The Bank of Canada held at 2.25% this week. Two real institutions, two different balance sheets, two different things their CFOs are about to do next. 2.25% held RBC wealth…

THE MONDAY MORNING LOOP Every organization I’ve ever worked with says they want growth. Fewer admit what growth actually needs A calm rhythm that turns seeing into doing and then…

WHAT MATTERS HAS WEIGHT There’s a small trick hiding in plain English: when we say something “matters,” we’re saying two things at once. There’s a small trick hiding in plain…

THE POWER OF SMALL DISCIPLINES I’ve learned the hard way that big transformations don’t come from grand gestures. I’ve learned the hard way that big transformations don’t come from grand…

This week I picked up Four Thousand Weeks again, right after finishing up Wild. The book is about the limits of our time. You roughly have four thousand weeks if you…

Experiments are humble. They don’t pretend to know who you should be. They don’t demand a grand narrative about your life or promise perfect clarity. They start with a small gesture:What if…