Writing — Kameel Baksh

Field Notes

The thinking behind the work.

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On Being Serious

ON BEING SERIOUS At seventeen, I was supposed to be reading my textbooks. Instead, I was reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide…

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Quietly different

QUIETLY DIFFERENT Practicing peace in public while the world is still messy is a subtle way of saying that peace…

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The deposits sit somewhere else

Up from half a million active users in early 2022, Koho's revenue run rate is past $100 million, doubled year…

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Nature, as a rule, doesn’t do straight lines.

January is when straight lines have their annual renaissance. New year. New goals. New roadmaps. New decks with diagonals heading…

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Same rate, different architecture

The Bank of Canada held at 2.25% this week. Two real institutions, two different balance sheets, two different things their…

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The Monday Morning Loop

THE MONDAY MORNING LOOP Every organization I’ve ever worked with says they want growth. Fewer admit what growth actually needs…

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What Matters Has Weight

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

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The Power of Small Disciplines

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

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I Don’t Mind What Happens

This week I picked up Four Thousand Weeks again, right after finishing up Wild. The book is about the limits of…

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Keep asking questions

Experiments are humble. They don’t pretend to know who you should be. They don’t demand a grand narrative about your life or…

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