Ideas I’m Working Through

We have it backwards. Completely, utterly backwards. When we think of solitary confinement, our minds conjure images of punishment, isolation, psychological torture. We imagine the poor soul locked away from…

There's an irony in the fact that I do most of my writing at the same desk where I spend most working days. The glass desk surface that bears witness…

There's a moment in every revolutionary change when the impossible becomes inevitable. It happened when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile—suddenly, dozens of runners achieved what had seemed physiologically impossible…

In the 1984 film The Karate Kid, young Daniel LaRusso arrives at Mr. Miyagi's house expecting to learn devastating kicks and lightning-fast punches. Instead, he's handed a cloth and told…

If you are striving for high performance – be it for your business or a personal competency, you should be interested in tracking metrics that indicate if changes need to…

I sometimes look up at a blue sky with white puffy (cumulus) clouds and see whether I can spot a shape.  I might see that the cloud has taken the form…