by Walt Hampton | Jun 5, 2026 | Success
AI has arrived with the same old promise. More efficiency. More productivity. More speed. More time. We’ve heard this before. Email was going to save us time. Smartphones were going to save us time. Zoom was going to save us time. The cloud was going to save us time....
by Walt Hampton | May 22, 2026 | Success
For a long time, many of us thought our value was in what we knew. That made sense. We worked hard to learn our craft. We studied, practiced, trained, read, wrote, built businesses, served clients, made mistakes, and slowly became good at what we do. Then the internet...
by Walt Hampton | Apr 30, 2026 | Success
There’s an old movie about law school called The Paper Chase. And when I came out of law school, that was exactly how the profession felt. If I needed to revise a document, I didn’t just open a file and make a few edits. I handed it to my secretary. She’d sit at an...
by Walt Hampton | Apr 2, 2026 | Success
Are you getting soft in the head? I’m a bit worried that I am. Soft in the sense that my mind is less sharp than it used to be. Less able to stay with a hard idea. Less patient with a long book. More tempted to reach for the phone, skim, swipe, sample, and move on....
by Walt Hampton | Feb 12, 2026 | Success
There’s a quiet fear moving through professional life right now. It doesn’t always show up as panic. More often, it shows up as distraction, overworking, or a low-grade sense of unease. A feeling that something fundamental is shifting and no one’s quite sure where...
