2025-09-12 19:15:00
Professional maturity is realizing you’re on your own.
It’s tempting to believe a mentor, a manager, or someone wiser will step in with the answer.
But no one is coming to “save” you.
The hard truth is that mentors and wise friends can guide you, but they can’t walk the path for you.
Ultimately, you will have to build your own conviction, push through uncertainty, make the call, and own the consequences.
2025-09-11 19:24:00
We’ve been taught to think about “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle” as if they’re all equally responsible choices.
But the truth is that recycling plastic does virtually nothing. At most, 10% of plastic is recycled. The rest makes its way into our food chains in various ways and causes disease. And plastic pollution is continuing to get worse.
It will take a drastic global intervention to change course – and if history is any guide, our track record of solving long-term problems is dismal.
Perhaps the first step is simply to bring to light the uncomfortable fact – recycling isn’t a solution, it’s a distraction.
Real change begins with reducing and reusing… and rethinking our relationship with plastic altogether.
2025-09-10 19:01:00
The amount of openness in any community or culture isn’t determined by the degree to which people in the “in” group exclude others. Instead, it is determined by the amount of effort that goes into including those who are on the “out.”
And it almost always shows up in the small things in conversation – in translating humor, picking common topics, showing curiosity.
Those small things are the big things.
2025-09-09 19:21:00
The biggest challenge with a commitment to seeking the truth is that you will often not like what you find.
That’s because truth often goes against our biases and our identities and makes us uncomfortable in the process.
But it is in that discomfort that we find growth.
2025-09-08 19:26:00
Showing someone the way doesn’t mean they’ll take it.
Sometimes, it even has the opposite effect.
That’s because people often need to arrive at the path forward themselves – in their own time, on their own terms.
The art of coaching isn’t in showing the way, but in creating conditions where the discovery of the path forward feels like theirs.
2025-09-07 19:46:00
One of our kids’ teachers has been sharing this maxim in class – practice makes progress.
She’s replaced the old practice makes perfect with something more powerful — because the goal isn’t perfection, it’s progress.
Perfection is static and can get us stuck. Progress is alive and keeps us moving.
It’s a beautiful articulation of a growth mindset.
It resonated.
