
Day 124 – The Discipline of Listening First
Real influence begins when you stop trying to be heard. I sat in a meeting last week and watched two smart people talk past each
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Real influence begins when you stop trying to be heard. I sat in a meeting last week and watched two smart people talk past each

Why teams decide whether tools create value or cost ? I have learned this the slow way, watching the same tools produce very different results

Letting go of the inbox as a measure of professionalism When I was young, I spent a lot of time standing next to my grandfather

This morning, I woke up and was ready for the day. I went for a run and then settled into my routine, and opened my

I sat at my desk staring at the problem in front of me. We needed to build new features into our software, but I had

I was reading through a routine project update when I felt something shift. The message was polite, thorough, and cooperative. Nothing was wrong on the
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I watched an engineer share their work on a video call last Monday. They had spent two weeks building a workflow automation, and this was

I have been thinking lately about how quickly trust can be built, and how quickly it can be tested. I picture a beautiful restaurant, the

The cool morning air brushed my face as I laced up my running shoes. It was the same ritual I had performed for hundreds of

There is a particular kind of magic that happens when a small group of people decides that the rules no longer apply. Not because they

I was running down the street this morning when a man in a small truck passed by me playing an old hip hop song called

I woke this morning to the familiar glow of a screen, and before my feet touched the floor, I had already consumed a dozen messages

I sat across from a friend last month who could not understand why his team kept chasing short-term wins at the expense of long-term strategy.

We take the human brain for granted. We walk through our days making thousands of decisions, reading countless social cues, and navigating complex situations without

I was sitting in a coffee shop last Tuesday, watching a founder sketch wireframes on a napkin. The product was clever. The execution was thoughtful.