leadership
You Knew Before I Did
I built a brand for twenty years. Then I searched for it.
How To Quit Defending Decisions You Know Are Wrong
The reason you can't let go isn't logic. It's that quitting would threaten who you believe you are.
Why I Never Negotiate My Salary
Never asked for a raise. Never negotiated an offer. For 25 years, fear and craft told the same story. Mindjacking at its finest.
How To Think for Yourself When Everyone Disagrees With You
Why your brain treats disagreement like danger, and a simple two-minute technique to protect your thinking.
How To Think for Yourself When Everyone Disagrees With You
When neuroscientists scanned the brains of people going along with a group, they expected to find lying. What they found instead was something far stranger. The group wasn't changing people's answers. It was changing what they actually saw. We'll get to that study in
How to Stop Overthinking Your Decisions
Gathering more information feels responsible. There's a point where it tips into overthinking and keeps you stuck.
How I Mindjacked Boards for a Living
A Confession from Inside the Consulting Industrial Complex
Why the People Who Disagree with You Are Your Secret Weapon
How intelligent opposition transforms your thinking from weak assumptions into rigorous reasoning—and why most people avoid this advantage entirely.
The 10-Minute Airport Conversation That Generated HP Billions
How a casual exchange at San Jose Airport became HP's gaming empire—and why most executives miss these moments entirely
5 Questions That Spot Breakthroughs Before They Happen
In October 1903, The New York Times published an editorial mocking the idea of human flight, stating that a successful flying machine might take "from one to ten million years" to develop through the efforts of mathematicians and engineers. Eight weeks later, on December 17, 1903, the Wright
