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The rarest thing in the room right now isn't strategy. It's steadiness.

There's a particular kind of guilt that's circulating right now among people who are good at their jobs and know it. It sounds like this: everyone else seems to be moving forward. Why am I still thinking about what to do? The AI transformation narrative has created a specific kind of urgency that...

Apr 14, 2026

The thing that determines how you'll handle the next disruption

I spent the last two weeks with COVID. Not the push-through lite version. The kind that makes you feel like you were hit by a truck, takes your concentration, your sense of forward motion, and replaces all of it with a ceiling you stare at wondering when you'll feel like yourself again. Around da...

Apr 07, 2026

Some lessons you learn in a classroom. Others you learn on the edge of a cliff at sunrise with no shoelaces.

When I was in my twenties, a few friends and I made one of those decisions that sounds adventurous in the planning and slightly reckless in the execution. We were going to hike into the Olympic mountains, find a crystal clear lake near the summit, and camp for the night. Spontaneous, underprepare...

Mar 31, 2026 intent uncertainty unmapped

The disruption is real. So are you.

I spent a full afternoon this week searching entry-level job listings with my 19-year-old son Ben. Ben is taking a year away from college to get real world experience. Smart kid. Curious. Full of potential he hasn't had enough time yet to fully realize. We've been spending a lot of time at the ki...

Mar 17, 2026 disruption reinvention skillseconomy

The story you tell yourself at 2am is running your life more than any strategy you’ve built during business hours.

I want to tell you something I don’t say often enough. The version of you that’s questioning everything right now - the relevance, the direction, the identity you spent years building, that version isn’t broken. That version is paying attention. I’ve been there. More than once. The one that stick...

Mar 10, 2026 anchor identity story

The most disorienting place in any transition isn't the ending - it's the space after it.

There's a number that stopped me this week. 80% of professionals say they feel unprepared to navigate what's happening right now. I didn't find that surprising. I found it unsettling and familiar. I've been that number. I lived six months of it with over 400 applications. My savings was counti...

Mar 04, 2026 reinvention

Optimization is just expensive denial.

There's a phrase I keep coming back to, and I want to share where it came from. I was standing in a parking lot at a company picnic, my second child at home, just back from maternity leave I was looking around and realized that literally nothing had changed while I was gone. Same role. Same team....

Feb 24, 2026 asking what if reinvention turning point

The container no longer fits. (That's not a crisis.)

Something shifted. Maybe it was sudden. Maybe it crept up on you. Either way, you can feel it. The container you've put yourself in - it no longer fits. If you're reading this, you probably know exactly what I mean. There was a point in my career that no matter how I repositioned myself, or how ...

Feb 18, 2026 blocked growth

When everything feels urgent (but nothing moves)

Last week I wrote about the difference between holding it together and actually being okay. This week is what comes before things start to feel clearer again. The dangerous part of cognitive overload isn't dropping balls. It's losing trust in your own judgment. When you can't tell what's actually...

Feb 10, 2026 clarity cognitive overload overload

Why holding it together is not the same as being all right

A few weeks ago, I was sick. I wasn't the "stay in bed and binge Netflix" kind of sick but the kind of sick where you're still showing up, still responding, still technically functioning but your energy is gone and your brain feels like it's wrapped in cotton. I had been sitting in my office sta...

Feb 04, 2026 overwhelmed self care systems

What overload actually does to your thinking

This past week I attended a large, in-person global kickoff event and spent time talking with people from all over - different regions, different roles, different teams. When I asked what was blocking people right now, hands went up in my session. “No time to focus or think.”“I feel like I can’t ...

Jan 27, 2026 clarity overwhelm

When Carrying the Ambiguity Quietly Becomes Your Job

After I started noticing how often clarity disappeared first, I began seeing the next pattern: When nothing gets clarified upstream, someone downstream absorbs it.And it’s usually the person who can handle it. I’ve been that person. The one who translates half-formed decisions into something usab...

Jan 20, 2026 ambiguity boundaries calm clarity

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