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There are people who have been gone for years and still occupy a chair in our minds.We know they are dead.There is no confusion about that.And yet we still know what they would have said.We still remember how they laughed.Sometimes we catch ourselves wanting to tell them something.That is the strange thing about human absence.The body can disappear much faster than the relationship.I kept thinking...
I have been thinking about Tuesdays.Not Mondays.Not launch days.Not the day a company announces funding.Tuesdays.The ordinary days when nobody is particularly interested in what a business is doing.Someone places an order.Someone complains.Someone sends an invoice.Someone looks at the bank balance.Someone decides whether to spend money or wait.Someone notices that customers are not using the produ...
There is a strange privilege in modern civilisation.We can depend on something without ever seeing it.Turn on a tap and water appears.Open an app and information appears.Order food and a complex supply chain disappears behind a delivery notification.Walk into an office and we rarely think about the infrastructure that makes the building functional.The more sophisticated a system becomes, the easie...
There is a subtle shift happening in organisations.We are moving from using AI to do things towards using AI to tell us what to do.That second shift is much more consequential.A machine that drafts a report is one thing.A machine that identifies a project risk, recommends a resource allocation, forecasts an outcome or suggests a course of action is something else entirely.That is where Danilo Arba...
There is a particular kind of “yes” that does not come from generosity.It comes from fear.Fear of disappointing someone.Fear of being called selfish.Fear of becoming less important.Fear that if you stop being available, someone might stop needing you.That thought kept returning to me while reading Aurora S.’s First You, Then the Rest.The title sounds straightforward: put yourself first.But real li...
The Strange Distance Between Knowing and DoingI finished Theresa Cheung's Walk Your Talk with a fairly ordinary thought.I already know most of this.Sleep better.Move.Drink water.Breathe.Be grateful.Spend less time scrolling.Protect attention.Build better habits.None of this is new information.And yet I kept thinking about the book.That usually means there is something underneath the obvious idea.C...
There are some books you finish and immediately know what you think about them.And then there are books that leave you sitting with a question.A Republic Reimagined: A New Economic Model for a New Age by Joshua Schmude belongs to the second category for me.I didn't agree with everything in the book.But I kept thinking about one question.Who owns the future when machines begin doing more of the wor...
There is something almost absurd about a life being reduced to ten inches.Twenty-two years of pouring tea.Twenty-two years of remembering who wants extra ginger, who will pay tomorrow, who needs a cup on credit and who comes to the cart simply because there is nowhere else to go.Then someone draws a chalk line on the pavement.Ten inches.And suddenly those ten inches matter more than everything tha...
There is something slightly uncomfortable about Finish What You Start.We have been taught to admire people who never quit.Finish the project.Complete the course.Stick to the goal.Keep going.Somewhere along the way, finishing became proof of character.Peter Hollins's book examines why we struggle to do exactly that.We start with enthusiasm. Then the excitement fades. The work becomes repetitive. Di...
There is a particular kind of love that looks beautiful from a distance.Someone waits.Someone remembers.Someone notices everything.Someone keeps showing up.And because they ask for nothing, we assume their love must be deeper.The Unsaid made me question that assumption.Kartikeya Dhar places Kabir Sharma in Shimla in 2003, a schoolboy with an unusual ability to notice what others miss. He sees unha...
