Lost In A Dark Wood

Lost In A Dark Wood

My eyes scanned the shelves. I nodded and I smiled. I recognized that I owned nearly all of the self-help books in the store. And I knew in that moment that I was finally on the road to getting better. That was decades ago now. Yet I remember clearly the...
Turn Off The Spigot

Turn Off The Spigot

There’s too much coming at us. Emails. Text messages. Notifications. Alerts. News updates. Social media across more channels than any sane person could possibly track. Then there are the breaking news banners, the talking heads, the outrage machine, and the endless...
AI Won’t Save You From The Treadmill

AI Won’t Save You From The Treadmill

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....
Soft In The Head

Soft In The Head

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....
The Hidden Cost of Busyness

The Hidden Cost of Busyness

No doubt you’re busy. Which might be a good thing. But, what’s easy to miss is that busyness has a cost. A cost many professionals don’t recognize until a lot of time has already slipped by. When your days are packed from morning to evening, your attention...