How are you doing?

(September 2019 at Ladies View, Ring of Kerry, Ireland) Summary of points in this post: Life is great right now but I feel guilty for feeling content. Questioned the idea of comfort zone. Are we really ever comfortable? Disillusioned: apparently I don’t enjoy the things I thought I’d love to do. I don’t want to…

Hidden Work

Hiring is a critical expensive problem every organisation must face. In an ideal world every organisations would prioritise people, hiring, and management. But we know the world is a messy place and there are trade offs to everything.

Discovering Writer’s Block

I need help. I’m writing this partially as a self-reflection exercise to debug this mental block but appreciate any pointer and/or sanity check to calibrate my possibly skewed reality, please. Situation: The past 3 years I have slowly developed a collection of files and notebooks filled with drafts, cues, and notes of thoughts and ideas…

The Shift

formulas, techniques, and howtos don’t work, but they help questions don’t answer, but they help experience don’t satisfy, but they help necessary but not sufficient of course I’m not talking about “how to properly defrost chicken in a microwave” or “how to boil perfect devilled eggs”. things that are predictable and mechanical to a large…

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