There’s a growing romance in business circles around the idea of “fractional” leadership - a head of marketing who works two days a week, a product lead who divides their time across three ventures, or a strategy executive who parachutes in for a few hours of wisdom and then disappears into the next … [Read more...]
The Beautiful Rage We Need
We’ve been taught to calm down too much. To stay polite, to stay within the lines, to play nice even when the game is rigged. Somewhere along the way, we confused civility with silence and patience with paralysis. But the truth is, the world doesn’t move forward on politeness alone. It moves … [Read more...]
The Difference Between Making and Designing
There comes a point in every creative person’s journey when instinct stops being enough. You can have the eye, the talent, the intuition, and even the charm of good taste, but without structure, intention, and reflection, all of that brilliance remains suspended in chance. It might work today, … [Read more...]
The Death of Books? Not Even Close
Every few years, the same conversation finds its way back into public consciousness, dressed in new logic but carrying the same old fear - that books are dying. I’ve heard it for years, but lately, the voices seem louder, more certain, almost triumphant. A few weeks ago, someone I hold in the … [Read more...]
The Illusion of Career Planning
I often tell my students that trying to plan your entire career is one of the biggest mistakes smart people make. It feels responsible, even intelligent, to map it all out - the next job, the next city, the next milestone. We’re taught that clarity comes from certainty. But in reality, clarity comes … [Read more...]