When someone asks me if I exercise, I say that I’m shit at CrossFit. I do go to classes twice or three times a week and I have been going for a few years. I’m still a bit chubby. I injure myself every few months and exercise still hasn’t become a habit. I was cleaningContinue reading “I’m bad at CrossFit”
Category Archives: Day to day
50 drafts
I’ve started to write this blog for myself. To have a space to train myself to write things down and to make some sense of it. It was partly learning how to write and part therapy. At the time I had some idea what I wanted to write about, but it has fairly changed overContinue reading “50 drafts”
Company culture for hardcore capitalists
I find it baffling that even in hardcore capitalistic circles, company culture and what it means for the company and profits is incredibly misunderstood. And I wonder if one of the reasons is that there is no project or programme you can run to “fix culture” and bring 10 FTE savings or salary decreases acrossContinue reading “Company culture for hardcore capitalists”
Delegating to AI made this header pretty boring
This post is about good old delegating outcomes versus delegating tasks and why it matters even more in the AI era. I tried a few different prompts to generate a header for this post. All of them were pretty much what you would expect. All the drivel you find all over LinkedIn, marketing materials orContinue reading “Delegating to AI made this header pretty boring”
Leading insecure overarchievers
We’ve all worked with people who would fall into this category. People who are consistently doing more than is expected, in amazing quality, work longer hours without being asked and in the end come across as incredibly humble folks. In some cases that insecurity will be overcompensated by false confidence or bravado. However the rootContinue reading “Leading insecure overarchievers”
Find a ladder and keep climbing…
If you would be in a basement that would be on fire and only way out would be scolding hot metal ladder, would you climb it? What if you wouldn’t see any fire, but only a smoke? Or you wouldn’t really notice any fire, but your family from upstairs would shout at you that youContinue reading “Find a ladder and keep climbing…”
You can meet people only as deeply as you met yourself
We are all on our journey through this life. We are just in different places at different times. It doesn’t mean that we will forever drift apart if we are not met as deeply as we would want. People have their own pace. There will be times when you will feel misunderstood and that’s ok.Continue reading “You can meet people only as deeply as you met yourself”
What if I was on your side all along…
Anxiety, obsessive thoughts, fears, nightmares, aches, mild panic attacks, sudden jumps in heart rate… When I was a kid, I had nightmares. A lot of nightmares. That kind of that goes deep into your bone and through your whole body. The one where you wake up petrified, where you can’t move and your body canContinue reading “What if I was on your side all along…”
What would I have to hear to change my opinion?
Next time, when you get stuck in your head, repeating the same problem over and over again. In a moment of awareness or through some reminder like a post-it note on a screen, ask yourself “What would I have to hear to change my opinion?”. And then watch the mess. Your ego will start toContinue reading “What would I have to hear to change my opinion?”
Commit and lead!
Don’t sit on the edge… don’t!…. just don’t… What we will talk about today is leadership and the need for commitment at all times. Commitment to the big things and to the small things. We all have some common understanding of what it means when someone doesn’t commit. Usually, it means that someone doesn’t wantContinue reading “Commit and lead!”
Just above average 