Essays, Stories & Ideas

We used to seek advice from people who knew something we didn't. Now success at one thing apparently qualifies someone to explain everything else. Including how to live our lives.

A company can publish, sponsor, and post all day. But people don't follow companies for their thinking. They follow people. This is about the time I let a client believe otherwise.

For most of adult life, what you’ve built is what explains you. Until the day it doesn’t, and nothing warns you it’s coming. A note from a man still working out what comes after.

We used to earn an audience by being good at something. Now we treat the audience itself as the proof. A note from someone who spent seventeen years building the machine.