How to stay big when the squeeze comes
We all have big and small versions of ourselves. When my children are irritating me, and I react in a grumpy way – and sometimes worse than grumpy – my small self is in the driver’s seat. My big self would see the moment and the actions of my children as irrelevant in the grander […]
Become undulled and re-imagine your work
My son started boarding school yesterday, 35 years after I moved into the exact same dormitory. His bed is about 5 metres from where mine was. My bed was steel, the next dude was about 2 feet from me, and there were 25 of us crammed together with no separation, privacy or storage space. It […]
Building a masterpiece of a business
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is often described as the greatest concept album ever produced. I remember hearing it for the first time — a sonic journey that felt alien and familiar all at once. Sixteen tracks woven into a single tapestry. Not just listened to, but experienced. Recorded at Abbey Road […]
The hollow victory of business
There’s a moment I think about often — the final one. Not morbidly, but honestly: that last look back. It’s the reckoning we all face, the point at which the real story of our life is told back to us. I try to live in service of that moment — not in fear of it, […]