Reflection №daily-reflection-336-all-advice-is-autobiography
When someone gives you advice, what they are mostly doing is describing what worked for them. That means that every piece of advice carries an invisible set of…
12 November 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-335-from-achievement-to-contribution
There is a transition that happens, or fails to happen, somewhere in the second half of a career. For a long time the organising question is what you…
11 November 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-334-the-shape-of-the-bet
Looking back over a career, I find that most of what went well traces to a small number of decisions with a particular shape: the downside was bounded…
10 November 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-333-disagree-and-commit
One of the most underrated skills in organisational life is the ability to argue hard for a position, lose, and then back the chosen path completely. It sounds…
9 November 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-332-simplicity-is-expensive
Pascal apologised for writing a long letter on the grounds that he had not had time to write a short one, and the line survives because everyone who…
6 November 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-331-you-cannot-remember-not-knowing
There is a particular blindness that arrives with expertise, and it is not arrogance. It is the simple inability to reconstruct what it was like before you knew…
5 November 2026
