philosophy
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They Didn’t Break. The System Did.
I want to start this journey towards empathy with a trip back to 1989 in Queens, New York. I am sitting down to eat the breakfast my grandmother, Lillian, has prepared for me. I am nearly 7. She, nearly 75. Breakfast is cottage cheese, cantaloupe, and rye toast. She thrived for almost one hundred years…
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The City That Never Finishes
In the center of Paris, at her beating heart, burns a furnace of fire and flame. A white-hot mass with a gravitational pull on those susceptible to her charm. This magnetic force draws you in, warms your soul, and if you are lucky enough to surrender to it, you become one with her. And when…
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The Hidden Drags That Undermine Team Leadership Effectiveness
In 2026, the difference between thriving and surviving will come down to efficiency. And I’m not referring to the obligatory mechanical kind powered by automation, which we are all going to have to adopt, but the human kind: the ability to lead a lightweight, focused team that cuts through challenges and adapts to challenges on…
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brutally honest
We wish for the courage to be brutally honest, forgetting to wish for the empathy to know when honesty becomes brutal. – Jesse Friedman
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A Note on Ego
Recently I have been more in tune with, and listening to the impact of Ego on our imagination. Our early childhood was Ego-less. We felt no shame running naked through our backyards, waving our arms, and singing songs. As children we also experience no limitations in our imagination. We were in tune with nature and…