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The S.I.E.S.T.A.S. Method for Beating Burnout

The S.I.E.S.T.A.S. Method for Beating Burnout

Apr 26, 2022 | Habits, Modern Life, Productivity, Restoration, Routines

Are you near Burnout, or know someone who is? As a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs and executives, I’ve had to get smart on what Burnout looks like but also how to stave it off. First, with all that has gone on in the past few years, it’s completely normal to feel...
We are reaching the end of the beginning of COVID-19. Welcome to the next phase: the Upside Down

We are reaching the end of the beginning of COVID-19. Welcome to the next phase: the Upside Down

Apr 22, 2020 | Anticipation, COVID-19, Mega Trends, Modern Life, Social Commentary

I’ve been thinking a lot about how this current phase of the pandemic – and the one that follows – will change us. Unfortunately, I don’t think that we are close to returning to normal. We are instead, to borrow a Churchillian turn of phrase, reaching the...
The Coronapocalypse is a failure of competence, but also of capitalism

The Coronapocalypse is a failure of competence, but also of capitalism

Mar 31, 2020 | Anticipation, Mega Trends, Modern Life, News, Perpendicular Thinking, Social Commentary, Strategy, Thinking Tools

Photo by Joshua Brown on Unsplash Are you surprised that the whole US economic system has essentially collapsed in a matter of weeks? I am. This is an enormously disruptive shock, to be fair. But the speed with which the health of the American economy has gone from...
In Praise of Slow Thinking

In Praise of Slow Thinking

Aug 7, 2019 | Attention, Deep Work, Modern Life, Stillness, Thinking Tools

Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” As a reaction to fast food (and its more modern incarnation, fast-casual ), a countermovement rose up a number years ago extolling the virtues of ‘ slow food ’. Since then, we’ve seen the emergence of slow fashion, slow...

A Reinvention Portfolio is the Key to Planning for a 22nd Century Life

Jun 5, 2018 | Acceleration, Modern Life, Reinvention, Strategy

I’m sometimes called upon to give my take on so-called Mega Trends and ‘the Future’, and tonight I’ll be a giving a different version of that talk. Rather than forecasting the future, however, I’m going to discuss the long one you have in front of you. I’m going to...

Stillness is the 21st Century Super Power

Mar 13, 2018 | Modern Life, Social Commentary, Stillness, Tech Lash

Do you reflexively reach for your phone when you’re stuck in an annoyingly long line at Starbucks? I do. How about when waiting to get on your flight and you’ve been relegated to boarding category 4? Guilty there, too. Don’t worry: this isn’t going to be another...
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