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
Reflection №daily-reflection-328-write-the-prediction-down
Here is an experiment that is unflattering and worth doing anyway. Think of something you had a strong view about a year ago, such as a technology, a…
2 November 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-327-the-half-life-of-what-you-know
A good deal of what I was taught as a young researcher has quietly expired. Not been refined or extended; expired. Some of it was wrong at the…
30 October 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-326-the-only-thing-that-compounds-for-free
Most assets require maintenance. Skills decay without practice, fitness disappears within months of stopping, knowledge expires. There is one exception I can think of, which is reputation. A…
29 October 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-325-nobody-is-watching-that-closely
There is a well-documented phenomenon called the spotlight effect, and the finding is simply that we badly overestimate how much other people notice us. The research tends to…
28 October 2026
