“Let’s stay on topic.” It’s a phrase meant to keep meetings productive and minds on task. Tangents,...
Mental Detours
We don’t get bored much anymore. Not really. Standing in line? Scroll. Stuck in traffic? Podcast. Waiting...
Speed is a virtue now. We skim. We swipe. We summarize. We measure the value of a...
You’re in the shower. Or on a walk. Or washing dishes. You’re not focused on anything in...
Somewhere along the way, we turned productivity into morality. A productive day is a good day. An...
We live in a world that likes its questions to be useful. If you’re curious about something,...
Not every idea arrives with a marching band. Some just show up, quiet and weathered, half-buried in...
“You’re overthinking it.” It’s meant as a gentle nudge, a reminder to stop spinning your wheels. But...
There’s something quietly magical about index cards. They’re small. Inexpensive. Unimpressive, even. You can buy 500 of...
We’ve never had more tools to help us think. Note-taking apps that sync across devices. Task managers...