Field Notes
ON BEING SERIOUS At seventeen, I was supposed to be reading my textbooks. Instead, I was reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide…
QUIETLY DIFFERENT Practicing peace in public while the world is still messy is a subtle way of saying that peace…
Up from half a million active users in early 2022, Koho's revenue run rate is past $100 million, doubled year…
January is when straight lines have their annual renaissance. New year. New goals. New roadmaps. New decks with diagonals heading…
The Bank of Canada held at 2.25% this week. Two real institutions, two different balance sheets, two different things their…
THE MONDAY MORNING LOOP Every organization I’ve ever worked with says they want growth. Fewer admit what growth actually needs…
WHAT MATTERS HAS WEIGHT There’s a small trick hiding in plain English: when we say something “matters,” we’re saying two…
THE POWER OF SMALL DISCIPLINES I’ve learned the hard way that big transformations don’t come from grand gestures. I’ve learned…
This week I picked up Four Thousand Weeks again, right after finishing up Wild. The book is about the limits of…
Experiments are humble. They don’t pretend to know who you should be. They don’t demand a grand narrative about your life or…