Start with what you can. Keep showing up. The rest will take shape—when it’s ready to take shape.
It’s easy to confuse clever with good. They’re not the same. Clever falls apart. Good gets refined into great.
Venn diagrams help me reframe problems—not by revealing the answer, but by changing how I see the question.
One of those days where everything settles—just a bit.
This isn’t about managing time. It’s about meeting it. Seeing it. Holding it long enough to do something that matters with it.
Good dashboards don’t just report. They resonate. They let you feel the pulse of a project—and move a team forward with shared clarity.
Every writer has thousands of bad pages in them. The faster you write them out, the sooner you find the good ones.
Sometimes the best way to move forward is to pause. Notice the pace—yours, theirs, the world’s. Most days we’re just keeping up. So take a moment. And breathe.
Time passes whether you track it or not. But when you do, something shifts. You stop drifting. You start deciding.
Persistence isn’t always sweat and sneakers. Sometimes it’s ink and paper — quiet proof that you showed up, and kept going, one page at a time.
Tinkering until the morning coffee goes cold.
A convo about haircuts led me to write about mess—because yeah, even everyday stuff gets messy. Here are 5 highlights from my week that reminded me of that.
Making is messy. Not because you’re doing it wrong—because it matters. Mess isn’t a flaw in the process. It’s part of it.
Calls are uncomfortable. But they’re also faster, clearer, and more human. Don’t default to comfort. Default to what works.
Don’t stall, hedge, or perform your clarity. Say what you mean. Then say why.