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
Reflection №daily-reflection-330-nobody-is-coming
A surprising amount of professional life is spent waiting. Not consciously, and never described that way, but waiting nonetheless. Waiting for the reorganisation to settle before starting the…
4 November 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-329-give-without-the-ledger
Over a long career you accumulate a fairly clear sense of who the generous people are. In my experience they share a characteristic that took me a while…
3 November 2026
