As I reflect on the different ways I’ve partnered with and served clients over the past four years, two meaningful distinctions in my work are: Whether I was in service of individual people or a team/
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In 1959, the same year in which the term “knowledge work” was coined, a chemical engineer turned consultant named James T. McCay published “The Management of Time,” one of the first professional-produ
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7 min read· Mar 2, 2023 We all claim to hate it, we all say we despise it. But really we all do it. Why is gossip so tempting? And if it’s so good, why do we want to deny engaging in gossip? The fact
What is the most uninformative statement that people are inclined to make? My nominee would be “I love to travel.” This tells you very little about a person, because nearly everyone likes to travel; a
I have been thinking a lot about organizational design lately and how it relates to how we collaborate and how managers/leaders collaborate. I have come to understand three principles: Principle #1: H
I often hear agency talked about as if it’s an inherent trait: Either someone has it or they don’t -- in which case, too bad, they’re doomed to a life in the minor leagues. This hasn’t been my experie
Someone recently forwarded me an essay from a blogger named Henrik Karlsson. It opens with an admission: “When I started writing online, the advice I got was to publish frequently and not overthink any single piece.”
Karlsson was not alone in receiving this suggestion. As social media erupted into…
Top highlight 9 min read · Jul 17, 2017 Today marks my 10th year as a self-employed independent creator. I don’t recommend it. It all started when my boss called me into a conference room. As I follow
One of the least understood components of my time-block planner is the “daily metrics” box that tops every pair of planning pages. Given that we’ve recently arrived at the beginning of a new year, an event that inevitably suffuses our culture with talk of reinvention and self-improvement, it seems…
Recently I’ve written a whole bunch about meditation, and my meditation life, about how the recent era of my consciousness has been beautiful, fascinating, etc. I’ve realized that these accounts have
1× 0:00 -54:49 Happy Sunday! I recently had to chance to sit down with my friend Sasha , who is, among many other things, an author , entrepreneur, Twitter celebrity, and meditator whose Substack I lo
Franz Marc, Grazing Horses IV (The Red Horses) , 1911 I’ve started two Zadie Smith novels in the past two weeks, finished one. I finished the new Naoise Dolan novel , started North Woods because every
Consenting to decisions 20 Sep 2022 by Mandy Brown In many an organization, consensus decision making is a strangely contested practice: often reviled for its perceived inefficiencies but also quietly
🙏I am incredibly humbled to have filled up the first cohort of my workshop. Thank you. There is a waiting list , and I will open up more cohorts for January and February in the next week or two. There
This article will join in the chorus of voices that have pointed out that The Climbing Community™ is an illusion. 1 The critiques thus far have ranged from polemics to ethnographies to satire and have
News: At the start of 2023, I decided to do something I've never done before: teach a paid workshop. I've resisted this for almost nine years (and most of 2023). But thanks to the support and encourag
MOLD’s series Health. Food. examines narratives around food and healing. Particularly how food feeds into the ongoing maintenance of our bodies, communities, and the Earth. What goes into a $200 peanu
Cecily Brown, Untitled , 1996 The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested … shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating an
November 18th, 2023: Greetings from Barcelona! We made it to the La Sagrada Familia this week, and wow. The inside has been closed in my past visits so it was great to be able to make it inside. The w
Are you gaslighting yourself? Many of the dynamics we deal with at work are not overtly toxic or unhealthy. We know people mean well and do their best, even when nerves fray and things don't pan out.
UKC Advertising Tom Ripley shares some nuggets of wisdom from his experiences of attempting and finally climbing the Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. T he Nose of El Capitan is one of the
A lot of my friends are in-between jobs, or taking some time off work right now. Most of them are compulsive workaholics and really want to keep themselves occupied even when they’re not in a structur
I remembered something funny last night about Christmas as a kid. For many (all) years of my childhood I was obsessed with dolls, and every year I would tell Santa Claus (my mom) the exact Barbie or Bratz I wanted. It would be like, This year I want 2005 Christmas Wonderland Snowflake Barbie. My…
October 28th, 2023: Greetings from Taipei. As you might have noticed, I updated the newsletter from “Boundless” to “Pathless” and brought it under the subdomain pathlesspath.com . Over the past couple
August 28th, 2023: Greetings from Taipei. A couple of of days “late” with the newsletter because I did a phone and computer-less weekend and read Pachinko (which was excellent) most of the weekend whi
“I'm in love for the first time don't you know it's gonna last? it's a love that lasts forever, it's a love that has no past” – Don’t Let Me Down (1970), by Paul McCartney and John Lennon When I start
I’m often strangely soothed by the idea that I appear to others as a youngish woman of indeterminate age and indeterminate means—hard to place. I really enjoy being anonymous, pseudonymous. I’m secret
On March 24, 2008, two years before she penned her oft-cited ten rules of writing , the immeasurably brilliant Zadie Smith delivered a lecture at Columbia University’s Writing Program under the brief
Joe Brainard, Pansies , 1968 I’ve been thinking lately about breakthrough moments, which seem so implausible before they actually happen. I am someone who hates being bad at things, which is an inconv
Within my particular subfield of theoretical computer science there’s perhaps no individual more celebrated than Edsger Dijkstra. His career spanned half-a-century, beginning with a young Dijkstra for
Source Getting better work (new biz) is a wholly internal process. Knowing oneself (practice, value, interests) brings more fulfilling, better paying, steadier work. Without self-development, you're o
My first three nights in NYC consisted of crashing on my friend’s air mattress in her A/C-less apartment. Facing a busy street, the window was propped open so a fan could blow out the hot air. Since I
Joint pain is part of life as a rock climber, and so much emphasis is placed on finger pulley and flexor tendon injuries, but what about the other side of the finger? Our fingertips are our initial an
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich Nearly two years ago to the day, I found myself in the backseat of a white van with two strange Chinese men… Unfortunately, that’s about as inte
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app . Heat waves rose from the valley floor on June 23 at the Yellow Pines campgr
August 19th, 2023 : Greetings from Taipei. We are feeling settled after a couple of weeks in Taiwan and starting to find a new routine and rhythm. I’ve been writing a lot in the mornings at cafes a co
The Philippines was the dark horse of our time in South East Asia, many climbers we spoke to before we went had no idea there was any climbing there at all! In fact, we would often be asked if we were
At the start of the year, I gave up my job title, a mask that didn’t fit my multidimensional identity, and my paycheck, a financial Tylenol which temporarily soothed the dissonance between my values a