We cut the wrong thing
💡A note before we start: this issue references boards, executives and departments — because that's where I've
The gap between saying yes and meaning it
There was a founder I worked with earlier in my career. Retail brand. Smart, articulate, genuinely passionate about what they&
What's your 53%?
I started my career figuring out what made global brands irreplaceable whilst working as a strategist in Seoul. Not just
The expert in the room
I've been sitting with my relationship with words lately. The ones I love. The ones I bristle at.
The door we keep slamming
We've collapsed every conversation into two positions.
You're in or you're out. With us
I am saying it anyway
I want to name something I have rarely named out loud.
Depression. My experience of it, starting in my early
I am not what I do. I am me. And I can do something new.
That might be the clearest thing I've read on the fear and the opportunity of AI. Liz Fosslien
What if you don't know?
What if the not knowing is the key.
Not a problem to solve. Not a gap to fill. The actual
Still here.
I've been quiet here for a while.
Percolating. The external world. My own internal one.
Kids getting older.
#0018: Who are you going to be in 2025?
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