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Change
Make progress in a shifting, changing world. Advice on how to find your way through the fog.
1 May 2025
Confessions of a serial mover
Always moving, never arriving
26 Mar 2025
For when it feels like you can't change anything
Everything is connected. Once you see it, you can shift it.
20 Mar 2025
You have infinite capacity for transformation
New beginnings are wasted on young people
20 Oct 2024
You can be the one who changes things
It's never been a better time to change things at work - and it's what your boss wants you to do.
1 Oct 2024
Just keep going
Sustaining momentum is hard for everyone. Just keep going.
18 Sep 2024
The consequences of your commitment
Unless you're making trade-offs that channel your time, energy, attention and money into your priorities and away from competing demands, they aren't your priorities. They're hopes and wishes.
30 Jul 2024
6 ways to stay on track when things turn to shit
Use setbacks as an opportunity to prove your commitment to what matters most. Perfect!
18 Jul 2024
Why change gets worse before it gets better
Change is hard, even when we want it. Before things improve, they tend to get much worse - and here are five key reasons why that happens.
12 Jun 2024
How and when to quit things (and how to do it well)
Why you should leave before it's bad, end good things and not let guilt hold you back - and how to do it well.
18 Dec 2023
How to move fast without breaking things
Moving fast and breaking things is great, but you should follow these 4 rules to prevent unnecessary stress and headaches.
7 Nov 2023
Nurture a network of freaks
The company you keep will change who you are as a person. Choose carefully.
19 Oct 2023
Balancing micro delight and macro despair
How I try to keep my WTF IS THIS SH*T impulse from ruining public events
14 Sep 2023
Hope is a terrible recipe for change
Ignore history at your peril. If you hope for the best, plan for the best, but change nothing about yourself or your approach, you'll fail.
21 Jun 2023
The joy of instability
There’s no answer. No done. No end of the road where everything falls into place. Why would you want that? To sit still, and change nothing until you die?
16 Jun 2023
From here to there and back again
An unvarnished high-level explanation of my career as prompted by curious conference-goers this week
2 Jun 2023
Grief, family and temporary communities
Do we all need our own Fight Club, to navigate the insanity of life, death and dysfunction?
26 Apr 2023
It's never too late to start something new
If you're telling yourself you've left it too late, or you're risking too much to start again, you should stop that immediately.
20 Apr 2023
Share your work in progress
Reasons to share your works in progress, especially when you're not very good yet.
13 Apr 2023
Reasons, seasons and changing jobs
You don't have to stick with your job, or even your career. If you're looking for a permission slip, here it is.
27 Oct 2022
Time to change: 4 signs that you need to take action
There are 4 key signs that it's time to change. Check them out.