Insights

The writing that started all of this.

Every Monday for over two years — 130 essays and counting. Short, personal, and written the way I actually think. It's for anyone who wants to do a little better: at work, at home, at life. And it's where the thinking behind the advisory, the talks, and the novel first gets worked out in the open.

What I write about

Some weeks it's work. Some weeks it's home. Some weeks it's just life.

Leadership, careers, and the life underneath them — different weeks, different stories, but the essays keep circling the same few truths. They're the ideas that run through the advisory work and the novel too. If any of these is the thing you can't stop thinking about, start here.

The unmeasured risk

Leadership as risk

Why how people are led is the most material risk most organizations carry — and the one nobody's scoring.

Almost chosen

Being passed over

Why your best people keep getting overlooked, what the room is actually weighing, and how to change the pattern.

The climb

From outside the room

What twenty-five years climbing from executive assistant to Managing Director taught me about how careers really move.

The through-line

The office comes home

What your work does to you after you leave the building — and what you carry through your own front door.

Where to find it

Two ways in.

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The FireStarter

One short essay a week, free — for anyone trying to do a little better at work, at home, and at life. It's also the first place the book, the talks, and everything else shows up. Subscribe →

Podcast · Season 3

Totally Unacceptable

The same ideas, out loud — conversations on leadership, careers, and the things we're not supposed to say about either. Listen →

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